08RS Senate Bill 66

Senate Bill 66

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Last Action	to Education (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to incentives for teachers and making an appropriation therefor.
Bill Documents	Bill
Bill Request Number	1185
Sponsor	D. Kelly
Summary of Original Version	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts, under certain conditions, to provide a salary supplement to teachers of chemistry, physics, or mathematics and to teachers of chemistry, physics, or mathematics employed in schools with a high concentration of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that beginning no later than the 2009-2010 academic year, monetary rewards be distributed to teachers as specified for AP calculus, chemistry, and physics based on student test scores and eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch; limit the maximum annual aggregate award amount to $10,000 per teacher; specify that awards to teachers are a necessary government expense if the Department of Education's appropriations are insufficient establish that the monetary awards for teachers shall not be used in the calculation for contributions for KTRS; amend KRS 164.757 to include elementary teachers enrolled in postsecondary education mathematics classes as eligible recipients of the teacher certification loan fund; require the Education Professional Standards Board to establish an accelerated certification program for certified teachers to obtain additional certification in physics, chemistry, or mathematics; allow teachers enrolled in an accelerated certification program to be exempt from repayment of loans.
Index Headings of Original Version	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Education Professional Standards Board, verification of eligibility criteria Appropriations - Teacher salary incentives, necessary government expense Education, Elementary and Secondary - Teachers of mathematics, chemistry, and physics, salary supplements for Education, Finance - Teachers of mathematics, chemistry, and physics, salary supplements for State Agencies - Education Professional Standards Board, accelerated certification program, development of Teachers - Salary supplements