2014 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.
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The Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood through
Adulthood is created to make available professional development for educators
in reliable, replicable research-based reading programs, and to promote
literacy development, including cooperating with other entities that provide
family literacy services. The center shall be responsible for:
(a) Developing and implementing a clearinghouse for information about
programs addressing reading and literacy from early childhood and the
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 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 quality preservice and professional development relating to
reading diagnostic assessments and intervention and to the essential
components of successful reading: phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and the connections between writing
and reading acquisition and motivation 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 identified literacy needs;
(e) Providing professional development and coaching for early childhood
educators and classroom teachers, including adult education teachers,
implementing selected reliable, replicable research-based reading
programs. 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
materials or summary materials that identify comprehension best
practices in the teaching of each subject area and a list of
classroom-based diagnostic reading comprehension assessments that
measure student progress in 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 under KRS 164.041.
The center shall review national research and disseminate appropriate
research abstracts, when appropriate, as well as conduct ongoing research of
reading programs throughout the state. Research activities undertaken by the
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center shall consist of descriptive as well as empirical studies.
(a) The center may contract for research studies to be conducted on its
behalf.
(b) The research agenda should, at a minimum, consider the impact of
various reading and intervention programs:
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In eliminating academic achievement gaps among students with
differing characteristics, including subpopulations of students with
disabilities, students with low socioeconomic status, students from
racial minority groups, students with limited English proficiency, and
students of different gender;
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In schools with differing characteristics, such as urban versus rural
schools, poverty versus nonpoverty schools, schools with strong
library media center programs versus schools with weak library
media center programs, and schools in different geographic regions
of the state;
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In terms of their costs and effectiveness; and
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In maintaining positive student progress over a sustained period of
time.
The center shall submit an annual report of its activities to the Kentucky
Department of Education, the Governor, and the Legislative Research
Commission no later than September 1 of each year.
With advice from the Department of Education, the Council on Postsecondary
Education shall develop a process to solicit, review, and approve a proposal for
locating the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development at a public
institution of postsecondary education. The Council on Postsecondary
Education shall approve the location. The center, in conjunction with the
council, shall establish goals and performance objectives related to the
functions described in this section.
Effective:July 15, 2010
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 ch. 526, sec. 29, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 580, sec. 3, 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 cited as the "Read to Achieve Act of 2005."
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