2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 164 STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES -- REGIONAL EDUCATION -- ARCHAEOLOGY 164.0207 Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood through Adulthood -- Duties -- Report.
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164.0207 Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood
through Adulthood -- Duties -- Report.
(1) The Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood through
Adulthood is created to make available professional development for educators in <br>reliable, replicable research-based reading programs, and to promote literacy <br>development, including cooperating with other entities that provide family literacy <br>services. The center shall be responsible for: <br>(a) Developing and implementing a clearinghouse for information about
programs addressing reading and literacy from early childhood and the <br>elementary grades (P-5) through adult education;
(b) Providing advice to the Kentucky Board of Education regarding the Reading
Diagnostic and Intervention Grant Program established in KRS 158.792 and <br>in other matters relating to reading;
(c) Collaborating with public and private institutions of postsecondary education
and adult education providers to provide for teachers and administrators <br>quality preservice and professional development relating to reading diagnostic <br>assessments and intervention and to the essential components of successful <br>reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, <br>and the connections between writing and reading acquisition and motivation <br>to read;
(d) Collaborating with the Kentucky Department of Education to assist districts
with students functioning at low levels of reading skills to assess and address <br>identified literacy needs;
(e) Providing professional development and coaching for early childhood
educators and classroom teachers, including adult education teachers, <br>implementing selected reliable, replicable research-based reading programs. <br>The professional development shall utilize technology when appropriate;
(f) Developing and implementing a comprehensive research agenda evaluating
the early reading models implemented in Kentucky under KRS 158.792;
(g) Maintaining a demonstration and training site for early literacy located at each
of the public universities;
(h) Assisting middle and high schools in the development of comprehensive
adolescent reading plans and maintaining a repository of instructional <br>materials or summary materials that identify comprehension best practices in <br>the teaching of each subject area and a list of classroom-based diagnostic <br>reading comprehension assessments that measure student progress in <br>developing students' reading comprehension skills; and
(i) Evaluating the reading and literacy components of the model adult education
programs funded under the adult education and literacy initiative fund created <br>under KRS 164.041.
(2) The center shall review national research and disseminate appropriate research
abstracts, when appropriate, as well as conduct ongoing research of reading
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programs throughout the state. Research activities undertaken by the center shall <br>consist of descriptive as well as empirical studies. <br>(a) The center may contract for research studies to be conducted on its behalf. <br>(b) The research agenda should, at a minimum, consider the impact of various
reading and intervention programs: <br>1.
In eliminating academic achievement gaps among students with <br>differing characteristics, including subpopulations of students with <br>disabilities, students with low socioeconomic status, students from racial <br>minority groups, students with limited English proficiency, and students <br>of different gender;
2.
In schools with differing characteristics, such as urban versus rural <br>schools, poverty versus nonpoverty schools, schools with strong library <br>media center programs versus schools with weak library media center <br>programs, and schools in different geographic regions of the state;
3.
In terms of their costs and effectiveness; and
4.
In maintaining positive student progress over a sustained period of time.
(3) The center shall submit an annual report of its activities to the Kentucky
Department of Education, the Governor, and the Legislative Research Commission <br>no later than September 1 of each year.
(4) With advice from the Department of Education, the Council on Postsecondary
Education shall develop a process to solicit, review, and approve a proposal for <br>locating the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development at a public institution of <br>postsecondary education. The Council on Postsecondary Education shall approve <br>the location. The center, in conjunction with the council, shall establish goals and <br>performance objectives related to the functions described in this section.
Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 127, sec. 5, effective March 18, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 526, sec. 29, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 580, sec. 3, <br>effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (3/18/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 127, which
included an amendment to this section, KRS 164.0207, provides that the Act shall be <br>cited as the "Read to Achieve Act of 2005."
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