2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 605 - ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS .110 Smoking cessation services, medical care, and educational programs for committed children -- Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children -- Personnel -- Financing.
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605.110 Smoking cessation services, medical care, and educational programs for
committed children -- Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency
Children -- Personnel -- Financing.
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(2)
(3)
(a)
Any child committed to or in the custody of the cabinet or the Department of
Juvenile Justice who is not placed in a location where smoking cessation
services are provided may participate in smoking cessation services offered by
local health departments or their contracted agents at no cost.
(b) Unless provided otherwise, when any child committed to or in the custody of
the Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet requires medical or surgical
care or treatment, the Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet may
provide the same or arrange for the furnishing thereof by other public or
private agencies, and may give consent to the medical or surgical treatment.
For this purpose, the services and facilities of local health officers and
departments shall be made available, at a cost not to exceed the Medicaid
reimbursement rate, to the Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet, and
as far as practicable, any publicly owned hospital shall provide hospitalization
without charge for any such child who is a resident of the political subdivision
by which the hospital is owned or operated. This section does not authorize
nor shall permission be granted for abortion or sterilization.
Any child placed in a foster home by an agency duly authorized in KRS Chapter
620 to place a child in a foster home shall receive a complete medical, visual, and
dental examination by a professional authorized by the Kentucky Revised Statutes
to conduct such examinations. Arrangements for a child placed in a foster home to
receive such examinations shall be made within two (2) weeks of his placement in a
foster home and not less than every twelve (12) months thereafter.
Children maintained in any of the facilities and programs operated or contracted by
the Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet shall, so far as possible, receive a
common school education.
(a) The Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children shall be
established to serve children in facilities and programs operated or contracted
by the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services, residential, day treatment, clinical, and group home programs. All
policies and procedures necessary to educate state agency children shall be
approved by the Kentucky Board of Education. All duties, responsibilities,
rights, and privileges specifically imposed on or granted to the local education
administration units shall be imposed on or granted to the Department of
Juvenile Justice or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and contracted
agencies with regard to educating agency children. Classrooms for the
Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children shall be within
or near the facilities and programs operated or contracted by the Department
of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet. The Kentucky Department of Education, the
Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services, Department for Community Based Services, shall develop a biennial
plan regarding the educational needs and provisions of educational programs,
(b)
(c)
(d)
with emphasis on the coordination of all treatment services and funds
available to provide for the education of state agency children. The biennial
plan shall include strategies to assure that teacher preparation programs
include content related to working with state agency children and that
adequate professional development opportunities for better meeting the needs
of these students are available for teachers and schools.
Teachers and other staff shall be hired on contract through a local school
district or if a local school district is not willing to participate, teachers may be
hired by the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children or
a contract may be entered into with a private provider of educational services.
All certified educational staff hired by the Kentucky Educational
Collaborative for State Agency Children shall be members of the Kentucky
Teachers' Retirement System.
Beginning July 1, 1993, the Kentucky Education Collaborative for State
Agency Children shall be financed through:
1.
The amount generated by state agency children under the Support
Education Excellence in Kentucky program as provided in KRS 157.360
for the guaranteed base and adjustments for the number of at-risk
students, exceptional students, and transportation costs;
2.
A per-pupil distribution of professional development funds with the
collaborative serving as a consortium for state agency children;
3.
A per-pupil distribution of technology funds in accordance with the state
education technology plan pursuant to KRS 156.670 and the formula for
the distribution of funds to local school districts;
4.
A per-pupil distribution of textbook funds pursuant to KRS 157.100 and
157.190;
5.
The funding for school services for state agency children authorized by
KRS 158.135; and
6.
Other grants and entitlements, including federal funds, identified in the
implementation plan developed pursuant to paragraph (f) of this
subsection for the education of Kentucky's children.
The commissioner of Juvenile Justice and the secretary of the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services shall promulgate administrative regulations,
pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, with the assistance of the Kentucky
Department of Education and upon recommendation of the Kentucky Board of
Education regarding the governance, curriculum, and other topics necessary to
educate state agency children. The regulations shall:
1.
Provide for the development and implementation of interagency
agreements that:
a.
Define the financial responsibility of each state and local agency
for providing services to state agency children;
b.
Establish procedures for resolving interagency disputes among
agencies that are parties to the agreements; and
2.
(e)
(f)
Provide procedures for the implementation of the Kentucky statutes
regarding school-based decision making, student outcomes,
accountability, assessment, rewards and sanctions, technology, staff
development, salaries, and the development of coordinated individual
treatment, education, and transition plans to ensure compliance with
present education and treatment laws and regulations specific to the
needs of children in the programs of the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services.
When the placement of a state agency child is changed so that the state agency
child must transfer from one school or educational facility to a different
school or educational facility, the school or educational facility that the state
agency child is leaving shall, within two (2) days of the state agency child
leaving, prepare an educational passport for the child, which shall be delivered
to the cabinet or the Department of Juvenile Justice. The cabinet or the
Department of Juvenile Justice shall, within two (2) days of enrolling a state
agency child in a new school or educational facility, present the educational
passport to the receiving school or educational facility.
The commissioner of Juvenile Justice and the secretary of the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services and the commissioner of the state Department of
Education shall initiate development of a plan for implementation of the
Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 661, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts
ch. 257, sec. 10, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 58,
effective July 14, 2000; and ch. 534, sec. 19, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 398, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1998; ch. 426, sec. 613, effective
July 15, 1998; ch. 433, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998; ch. 538, sec. 5, effective April
13, 1998; and ch. 609, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch.
358, sec. 16, effective July 1, 1997; and ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 376, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994. – Amended 1992
Ky. Acts ch. 357, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 350,
sec. 9, effective April 10, 1988; and ch. 357, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1988. -Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 423, sec. 14, effective July 1, 1987.
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