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 until January 1, 2023).
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199.8943 Quality-based graduated early care and education program rating system
-- Administrative regulations.
(Effective until 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, publicfunded 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 and the Child Welfare Oversight and
Advisory Committee established in KRS 6.943 on the implementation of the
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quality-based graduated early childhood rating system. 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: July 14, 2018
History: 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 (7/14/2018). This statute was amended by 2018
Ky. Acts chs. 112 and 159, which do not appear to be in conflict and have been
codified together.
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