2022 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 158 - Conduct of schools -- special programs 158.146 Establishment of strategy to address school dropout problem -- Department to provide technical assistance, award grants, and disseminate information to school districts and school level personnel.
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158.146
Establishment of strategy to address school dropout problem -Department to provide technical assistance, award grants, and disseminate
information to school districts and school level personnel.
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No later than December 30, 2000, the Kentucky Department of Education shall
establish and implement a comprehensive statewide strategy to provide assistance to
local districts and schools to address the student dropout problem in Kentucky
public schools. In the development of the statewide strategy, the department shall
engage private and public representatives who have an interest in the discussion.
The statewide strategy shall build upon the existing programs and initiatives that
have proven successful. The department shall also take into consideration the
following:
(a) Analyses of annual district and school dropout data as submitted under KRS
158.148 and 158.6453;
(b) State and federal resources and programs, including, but not limited to,
extended school services; early learning centers; family resource and youth
service centers; alternative education services; preschool; service learning;
drug and alcohol prevention programs; School-to-Careers; High Schools that
Work; school safety grants; and other relevant programs and services that
could be used in a multidimensional strategy;
(c) Comprehensive student programs and services that include, but are not limited
to, identification, counseling, mentoring, and other educational strategies for
elementary, middle, and high school students who are demonstrating little or
no success in school, who have poor school attendance, or who possess other
risk factors that contribute to the likelihood of their dropping out of school;
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(d) Evaluation procedures to measure progress within school districts, schools,
and statewide.
No state or federal funds for adult education and literacy, including but not limited
to funds appropriated under KRS 151B.409 or 20 U.S.C. secs. 9201 et seq., shall be
used to pay for a high school student enrolled in an alternative program operated or
contracted by a school district leading to a certificate of completion or a High
School Equivalency Diploma.
The department, with assistance from appropriate agencies, shall provide technical
assistance to districts requesting assistance with dropout prevention strategies and
the development of district and schoolwide plans.
The department shall award grants to local school districts for dropout prevention
programs based upon available appropriations from the General Assembly and in
compliance with administrative regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Board of
Education for this purpose. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the available dropout
funds shall be directed to services for at-risk elementary and middle school students,
including, but not limited to, identification, counseling, home visitations, parental
training, and other strategies to improve school attendance, school achievement, and
to minimize at-risk factors. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the funds shall be directed
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to services for high school students identified as likely to drop out of school,
including, but not limited to, counseling, tutoring, extra instructional support,
alternative programming, and other appropriate strategies. Priority for grants shall
be awarded to districts that average, over a three (3) year period, an annual dropout
rate exceeding five percent (5%).
The department shall disseminate information on best practices in dropout
prevention in order to advance the knowledge for district and school level personnel
to address the dropout problem effectively.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 27, effective June 27, 2019. -- Amended
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 13, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2004 Ky. Acts
ch. 103, sec. 3, effective July 13, 2004. -- Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 452, sec. 2,
effective July 14, 2000.
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