2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 161 - SCHOOL EMPLOYEES -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT AND TENURE 161.167 Program to encourage persons to enter Kentucky teaching profession -- Reports.
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161.167 Program to encourage persons to enter Kentucky teaching
profession -- Reports.
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By January 1, 2001, the Kentucky Department of Education, with help from
representatives of the Education Professional Standards Board, the Council on
Postsecondary Education, the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance
Authority, the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities,
public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions, and local
educational agencies, shall develop a plan, including timelines for
implementation, for a multidimensional recruitment and information program, to
encourage persons to enter the teaching profession and to seek employment in
Kentucky.
The program shall not supplant or diminish current efforts required in KRS
161.165.
The components of the program shall include:
(a) Early recruitment programs to inform middle and high school students
about the potential of teaching as a career;
(b) Programs to encourage paraprofessionals in schools, as well as other
nontraditional students, to pursue additional education to become
teachers;
(c) Programs to enlist highly skilled career employees in specific content
areas to pursue teaching as a second career;
(d) Options for recruiting persons with liberal arts and sciences majors and
current students with nondeclared majors into nontraditional and
accelerated teacher preparation programs;
(e) Marketing strategies for informing the public of the importance of high
quality teaching to student achievement, the value of teachers to society
as a whole, the benefits and rewards of teaching, and the options for
entering teacher preparation, including scholarship information; and
(f) Expanding the Kentucky Department of Education's electronic bulletin
board for certified vacancies in local school districts to include an option
for potential teachers to voluntarily post their availability for education
positions within the state.
No later than March 15, 2001, the Department of Education shall present a
status report of the recruitment and information program to the Interim Joint
Committee on Education; and no later than October 15, 2001, the Department
of Education shall present to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the
Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue a summary report with
recommendations.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 527, sec. 5, effective July 14, 2000.
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