2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 158 - CONDUCT OF SCHOOLS -- SPECIAL PROGRAMS 158.805 Commonwealth school improvement fund -- Purposes -- Criteria for grants to schools needing assistance.
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158.805 Commonwealth school improvement fund -- Purposes -- Criteria for
grants to schools needing assistance.
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There is hereby created the Commonwealth school improvement fund to assist
local schools in pursuing new and innovative strategies to meet the educational
needs of the school's students and raise a school's performance level. The
Kentucky Board of Education shall utilize the Commonwealth school
improvement fund to provide grants to schools for the following purposes:
(a) To support teachers and administrators in the development of sound and
innovative approaches to improve instruction or management, including
better use of formative and summative, performance-based assessments;
(b) To assist in replicating successful programs developed in other districts
including those calculated to reduce achievement gaps as defined in KRS
158.649;
(c) To encourage cooperative instructional or management approaches to
specific school educational problems; and
(d) To encourage teachers and administrators to conduct experimental
programs to test concepts and applications being advanced as solutions
to specific educational problems.
The Kentucky Board of Education shall develop criteria for awards of grants
from the Commonwealth school improvement fund to schools identified by the
board as needing assistance under KRS 158.6455.
The Kentucky Board of Education shall have the sole authority to approve
grants from the fund.
The Kentucky Board of Education may establish priorities for the use of the
funds and, through the Department of Education, shall provide assistance to
schools in preparing their grant proposals. The board shall require that no
funds awarded under the Commonwealth school improvement fund are used to
supplant funds from any other source. Requests for necessary equipment may
be approved at the discretion of the state board, however the cost of
equipment purchased by any grantee shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of
the total amount of money awarded for each proposal and shall be matched by
local funds on a dollar for dollar basis.
The Kentucky Board of Education shall establish maximums for specific grant
awards. All fund recipients shall provide the board with an accounting of all
money received from the fund and shall report the results and conclusions of
any funded projects to the Kentucky Board of Education. All fund recipients
shall provide the board with adequate documentation of all projects to enable
replication of successful projects in other areas of the state.
Effective:March 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 11, effective March 25, 2009. -Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 302, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 598, sec. 13, effective April 14, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky.
Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476,
Pt. I, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1990. -- Created 1985 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts
ch. 10, sec. 10, effective October 18, 1985.
2014-2016 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2014 Ky. Acts
ch. 117, Pt. I, C, 3, (7) at 629.
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