2022 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 199 - Protective services for children - adoption 199.8943 Quality-based graduated early care and education program rating system -- Administrative regulations. (Effective January 1, 2023).
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199.8943 Quality-based graduated early care and education program rating
system -- Administrative regulations. (Effective January 1, 2023)
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As used in this section:
(a) "Federally funded time-limited employee" has the same meaning as in
KRS 18A.005;
(b) "Primary school program" has the same meaning as in KRS 158.031(1);
and
(c) "Public-funded" means a program which receives local, state, or federal
funding.
The Early Childhood Advisory Council shall, in consultation with early care and
education providers, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and others,
including but not limited to child-care resource and referral agencies and family
resource centers, Head Start agencies, and the Kentucky Department of
Education, develop a quality-based graduated early care and education
program rating system for public-funded licensed child-care and certified family
child-care homes, public-funded preschool, and Head Start, based on but not
limited to:
(a) Classroom and instructional quality;
(b) Administrative and leadership practices;
(c) Staff qualifications and professional development; and
(d) Family and community engagement.
(a) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall, in consultation with the
Early Childhood Advisory Council, promulgate administrative regulations
in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement the quality-based
graduated early childhood rating system for public-funded child-care and
certified family child-care homes developed under subsection (2) of this
section.
(b) The Kentucky Department of Education shall, in consultation with the
Early Childhood Advisory Council, promulgate administrative regulations
in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement the quality-based
graduated early childhood rating system, developed under subsection (2)
of this section, for public-funded preschool.
(c) The administrative regulations promulgated in accordance with
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection shall include:
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Agency time frames of reviews for rating;
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An appellate process under KRS Chapter 13B; and
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The ability of providers to request reevaluation for rating.
The quality-based early childhood rating system shall not be used for
enforcement of compliance or in any punitive manner.
The Early Childhood Advisory Council, in consultation with the Kentucky
Center for Education and Workforce Statistics, the Kentucky Department of
Education, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, shall report by
October 1 of each year to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on the
implementation of the quality-based graduated early childhood rating system.
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The report shall include the following quantitative performance measures as
data becomes available:
(a) Program participation in the rating system;
(b) Ratings of programs by program type;
(c) Changes in student school-readiness measures;
(d) Longitudinal student cohort performance data tracked through student
completion of the primary school program; and
(e) Long-term viability recommendations for sustainability at the end of the
Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant.
By November 1, 2017, the Early Childhood Advisory Council and the Cabinet
for Health and Family Services shall report to the Interim Joint Committee on
Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare on
recommendations and plans for sustaining program quality after the depletion
of federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant funds.
Any federally funded time-limited employee personnel positions created as a
result of the federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant shall be
eliminated upon depletion of the grant funds.
Effective:January 1, 2023
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 25, effective January 1, 2023; and
ch. 223, sec. 9, effective January 1, 2023. -- Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 112,
sec. 3, effective July 14, 2018; and ch. 159, sec. 52, effective July 14, 2018. -Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 4, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts
ch. 99, sec. 195, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec.
15, effective July 14, 2000.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/1/2023). This statute was amended by
2022 Ky. Acts chs. 211 and 223, which are identical and have been codified
together.
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