2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 158 - CONDUCT OF SCHOOLS -- SPECIAL PROGRAMS 158.848 Grant programs concerning STEM disciplines and AP and IB courses.
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158.848 Grant programs concerning STEM disciplines and AP and IB
courses.
(1)
(2)
(3)
Using funds from the science and mathematics advancement fund, the
Department of Education shall establish the following grant programs for public
schools:
(a) High School Advanced Science and Mathematics Course Start-up
Program;
(b) Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program; and
(c) District Energy Technology Career Track Program.
(a) High School Advanced Science and Mathematics Course Start-up
Program. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of
students who successfully complete rigorous science and mathematics
coursework during high school by providing support to high schools to
offer additional advanced science and mathematics courses with highly
trained teachers and appropriate course materials.
(b) The program shall provide two (2) year grants to high schools. To qualify
for a grant, a school shall initiate at least one (1) advanced mathematics
and science course. During the first year of the grant, funds shall be used
for planning and the training of teachers. During the second year of the
grant, funds shall be used to provide additional support for
implementation of an advanced science and mathematics course.
(c) Permissible uses of funds include additional training for an advanced
science and mathematics teacher and the purchase of classroom
supplies, textbooks, laboratory equipment, and other instructional
materials.
(d) A high school applying for a grant under this subsection shall provide
assurances that:
1.
All teachers of advanced science and mathematics courses
supported by the grant shall participate in a College Board-endorsed
AP
summer
training
institute
or
International
Baccalaureate-sponsored IB summer workshop, as available; and
2.
All students completing AP courses supported by the grant shall
take the AP examination, and all students enrolled in the IB courses
supported by the grant shall take the IB examination, in the
respective content areas.
(a) Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program. The purpose
of the program is to increase the number of students entering high school
who are well-prepared to undertake rigorous mathematics and science
coursework, culminating in successful completion of advanced science
and mathematics courses and high achievement on AP and IB
examinations.
(b) The program shall provide two (2) year renewable grants to middle
schools to support intensive, accelerated student learning in mathematics
and the sciences, to be offered at no cost to participants. Grants shall be
used to support activities that may include but not be limited to programs
during the school day, after-school programs, Saturday programs, or
(4)
multiweek summer sessions.
(c) The grant application shall ensure that teachers participating in the grant
have the skills to provide intensive, accelerated student learning in
mathematics or the sciences and that they will receive ongoing, relevant
professional development.
(d) A middle school receiving grants shall collaborate with elementary
schools from which it receives students, and with high schools to which it
sends students, to share information on grant activities; strengthen
alignment of curricula, content-knowledge expectations, and instructional
practice between schools; and provide relevant professional development
opportunities.
(e) The accelerated learning program shall include strategies to improve the
academic skills in mathematics and science for all students for whom
significant academic achievement gaps have been identified and to attract
them into higher level mathematics and science courses. Specific
activities to recruit and enroll students from all racial, ethnic, and
socioeconomic groups within the school shall be conducted. Each grant
applicant shall provide assurances that the necessary resources will be
allocated and utilized to help students in all subpopulations academically
succeed in the accelerated learning program and to meet the enrollment
goal. The enrollment goal shall be that the number of students
representing each racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic group enrolled in the
mathematics and science accelerated learning program shall not be less
than nor limited to the percentage of each group in the total school
population.
District Energy Technology Career Track Program. The purpose of the
program is to provide grants to school districts to develop and implement an
energy technology engineering career track across middle and high schools
within the district as described in KRS 158.808.
Effective:July 15, 2008
History: Created 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2008.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2008). The Reviser of Statutes has
renumbered subsections (2) and (3) of this statute from the way they appeared
in 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 4, under the authority of KRS 7.136(1)(a).
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