2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 161 - SCHOOL EMPLOYEES -- TEACHERS' RETIREMENT AND TENURE
161.185 Certified or classified staff member to accompany students on school-sponsored or endorsed trips -- Exceptions.
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161.185 Certified or classified staff member to accompany students on
school-sponsored or endorsed trips -- Exceptions.
(1)
(2)
(3)
Except as provided in subsection (2), boards of education shall require a
certified or classified staff member who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age
to accompany students on all school-sponsored or school-endorsed trips. Local
boards of education may adopt a policy that specifies the job classifications of
staff members who may accompany students on trips under this section.
Boards of education may permit a nonfaculty coach or nonfaculty assistant, as
defined by administrative regulation promulgated by the Kentucky Board of
Education under KRS 156.070(2), to accompany students on all
school-sponsored or school-endorsed athletic trips. A nonfaculty coach or
nonfaculty assistant shall be at least twenty-one (21) years of age, shall not be
a violent offender or convicted of a sex crime as defined by KRS 17.165 which
is classified as a felony, and shall submit to a criminal record check under KRS
160.380.
Prior to assuming his or her duties, a nonfaculty coach or nonfaculty assistant
shall successfully complete training provided by the local school district. The
training shall include, but not be limited to, information on the physical and
emotional development of students of the age with whom the nonfaculty coach
and nonfaculty assistant will be working, the district's and school's discipline
policies, procedures for dealing with discipline problems, and safety and first
aid training. Follow-up training shall be provided annually.
Effective:March 9, 2011
History: Amended 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 1, effective March 9, 2011. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Repealed
and reenacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 482, effective July 13, 1990. -Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 1.
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