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"Orthopedic impairment," definition of for special education statutes - SB 317: SCA(1)
"Teach Census Week," declaration of - SR 81; HR 115
Abstinence education - SB 126; HB 440; HB 440: HCS
Abstinence, instruction on - HB 502: HFA(9),(10)
Administrative
  • regulations and interpretations on exceptional children not to exceed federal law - SB 317: HFA(1)
  • regulations, subcommittee review of - SB 214
Advisory councils - SB 236: SCA(1)
Alternative
  • certification, teachers and administrators - HB 437: SFA(1)
  • schools, reporting dropout rates of nonresident students - HB 467
  • teaching certification for veterans of the Armed Forces - HB 76: HCS
Area technology centers, funding for locally-operated - HB 850: SCA(1)
Arts and foreign languages, promotion of programs, elementary schools - SB 81
Assessment
  • and Accountability Review Subcommittee, exemption from open meetings law - SB 280
  • and accountability, publication of school report card - HB 984: HCA(1)
Audits
  • of any organization that receives dues from local school board members - HB 689: HFA(1)
  • of school districts and related organizations - HB 689
Best Buddies Program, establishment of - HR 166
Board
  • and Department of Education, teaching and display of historic documents, encouragement of - SJR 57; SJR 57: SFA (3)
  • and Department, teaching and display of historic documents - SJR 57: SFA(1)
Board,
  • appointment, Travis, Keith R . - HCR 23
  • appointment, Travis, Keith R. - HCR 18
  • appointment, Weinberg, Bill - HCR 19
Burial honor guard program, academic credit for - HB 278
Capital outlay funds, available to school districts to comply with Bleacher Safety Act - HB 115: HFA(4)
Career
  • and technical education - HB 850: HCS
  • and technical education, standards, accountability, teachers of - HB 850
Certification requirements for science teachers - HJR 98
Certification, alternatives, principals and superintendents - SB 277
Character education - HB 157
Cheerleading, interscholastic sport, designated as - HB 200
Classified
  • employees, prior service - SB 287: HFA(2)
  • employees, right to legal counsel for - SB 213
  • employees, study of salaries of - HCR 114
Closing for primary election - HB 132
Clothing and school supplies, exemption from sales tax from August 1 to 7 - SB 381
Collaborative Center for Literacy Development and reading grants, funding increase for - SB 271
Collective bargaining, public employees, provisions for - HB 743, 831
College-level mathematics placement, early testing for - HB 178
Community-based learning initiatives, encouragement of - HR 153
Compulsory
  • attendance, chiropractor to sign statement of exemption from - HB 58: HCS
  • school attendance, age or graduation requirement - HB 224
Construction, prevailing wage, impact on - SB 237: SCS
Contracts, superintendents - HB 623: HCS
Cooperative secondary vocational education programs, standards for - HB 873; HB 850: HFA (1)
Day treatment, referral of students to - HB 716
Dental examination, prior to school enrollment, requirement for - HB 622
Department of Education, display of historic documents including the Ten Commandments - HJR 135
Discipline of students, use of respectful terms to address and respond to school employees - HB 117
Display of historic documents, including the Ten Commandments - HJR 135
Distribution of resolution to districts, teachers, and administrators required - SJR 57: SFA(5)
Dress codes for students - HJR 14: SCA(1)
Driver education, secondary schools, required course offering - HB 761
Driver's license, suspend until 18 for dropouts, unless working on GED - HB 171
Dropout
  • Prevention Program - HB 77: HCS
  • rates for students attending an alternative school - HB 467
Dyslexia, establishment of center for - SB 278
Early
  • Mathematics Placement Testing for high school students - HB 178: HCS
  • Reading Incentive Grant Steering Committee, membership, change to - SB 236
Economic education in public schools, study, direction of - HCR 82
Education
  • advisory groups, membership, changes to - SB 236
  • assessment and accountability review subcommittee, review of regulations - SB 214
  • personnel, professional preparation of - SB 77: HFA(2), FCCR
  • personnel, recruitment, training, and evaluation of - SB 266
  • personnel, use of resources by - SB 266
  • Professional Standards Board - HB 437: HFA(4)
  • Professional Standards Board, teachers, ranking of - HB 260
Educational institution and school district annual financial reports, due date for - HB 332
Election day, permit schools to close - HB 347: SCA(1)
Elective high school courses in comparative religion, requirement - HB 279
Eminent domain by local boards of education - HB 284
Employees, classified, salary and benefits for - HB 637
Evolution theory, instruction in - HB 299
Exceptional
  • children and youth, definitions for - SB 317
  • children, administrative regulations and interpretations not to exceed federal law - SB 317: HFA(1)
  • children, suspension of - SB 317
Exemption from compulsory school attendance, authorization by chiropractor - HB 58
Extracurricular
  • activities, use of fund for - HB 292: HFA(1)
  • activity transportation fund - HB 292
Facilities Support Program funds, available to school districts to comply with Bleacher Safety Act - HB 115: HFA(4)
Family
  • Resource and Youth Service Centers, emergency to apply eligibility criteria - HB 640: HCS
  • resource and youth service centers, free and reduced price school meals as criteria - HB 640
  • resource and youth service centers, provisions for - HB 640: HCA(2)
  • resource and youth services centers, provisions for - HB 640: HFA(1)
Firearms, safety instruction - SB 103
Fundraising, information to parents about - HB 382: HFA(1)
Geography
  • education, creation of board and trust fund for support of programs and training for - HB 254
  • education, establish board and trust fund to support - HB 254: HCS
Harassment in schools, prohibition of - HB 803
Health
  • care services in Kentucky public schools - HB 305: HFA(1),(3)
  • care services in schools, documentation and recordkeeping protocols for - HB 305: HFA(2),(5)
  • insurance, local school district contracted - HB 708
  • services to students - HB 305: HFA(4)
High
  • school athletics, compliance with federal law - SB 397
  • school football teams, classification change permitted - SB 203
Historic
  • display in schools - SJR 57: HFA(6),(16)
  • documents displays in schools - SJR 57: HFA(3)
  • documents, display - SJR 57: HFA(18),(20)
  • documents, display in schools - SJR 57: HFA(15),(19)
  • documents, displays in schools - SJR 57: HFA(4),(5),(7),(8),(9),(10),(11),(12),(13),(14),(22)
  • documents, encouragement of teaching and display - SJR 57
Historical
  • and religious documents in public buildings, display of - SB 90
  • documents, posting and study - SJR 57: HCS, HFA (2)
HIV/AIDS,
  • age-appropriate education relating to - SB 390
HVAC installer, false advertising - HB 561
Income tax credit for tuition paid to private schools - HB 502: HFA(14)
Instruction on historidal impact of religion - HB 111
Instructional materials - SB 91: HFA(2)
Kentucky
  • Board of Education, reappointment of Craig True to - HCR 21
  • Board of Education, administrative regulations - SB 256: HFA(1)
  • Board of Education, appointment of R. Keith Travis to - HCR 23: HCS, HCA (1)
  • Board of Education, reappointment of Helen W. Mountjoy - HCR 7
  • Board of Education, reappointment of Jane A. Venters to - HCR 24
  • Board of Education, reappointment of Laken Cosby, Jr., to - HCR 20
  • Board of Education, reappointment of Lydia Carol Gabbard - HCR 18: SCA(1)
  • board of Education, uniform grading scale established by - SB 204
  • Board of Education, waiver of paperwork requirements - HB 884
  • Education Reform Act, Commemorating the anniversary of - HR 200
  • Educational Excellence Scholarship, numerical grade scale - HB 1004
  • Educational Excellence Scholarship, revisions - SB 125; SB 125: SCA (1)
  • Law Enforcement Foundation, school district participation in - HB 929
  • Teachers Retirement System - SB 275: SFA(1)
  • Teachers Retirement System, life insurance - HB 739: HCA(1), HFA (4)
  • Teacher's Retirement System, omnibus revisions - HB 739: SCS
  • Teachers' Retirement System, omnibus revisions - HB 739; HB 739: HCS
Kindergarten, attendance calculations for - HB 174
Knife,
  • prohibition of possession by students, when - SB 154
  • students not to possess, when - HB 845
KY
  • Educational Excellence Scholarship, eligible students enrolled in out-of-state institutions - HB 462: SFA(1)
  • Retirement Systems board, KY Education Support Personnel Assoc. member, appointed - HB 597
Library media centers - HB 324
Local
  • board of education, medical exemption from compulsory attendance to be filed with - HB 58: HCS
  • boards of education, members, expense reimbursement for - HB 142
  • finance officer, training required, conforming amendments - HB 668
  • school board members, audits of organizations that receive dues from - HB 689: HFA(1)
  • school district, publication of financial reports and school report card - HB 984: HCA(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, school to close in observance of - HB 347: HCS
Memorial
  • Day observed by public schools - SB 42: SCS
  • Day observed in public schools - SB 42: SCA(1)
  • Day, observance by public schools, mandatory - SB 42
Middle
  • school mathematics teachers, professional development - SB 77: HCS(1)
  • school mathematics teachers, professional development for - SB 77
  • school teachers - HB 437: HFA(2)
  • school teachers, exemption from documenting content area preparation - HB 437: HFA(3)
Monitoring of school districts - SB 280; HB 799
National Education Association's Read Across America Day, recognizing - SR 103
Noncertified employees of school boards, retirement service calculations - HB 258
Nonpublic schools, home study programs, regulation of - HB 960
Office
  • of Education Accountability, monitoring academic progress by the - SB 280: SFA(2)
  • of Education Accountability, oversight provisions - SB 280: SCS
Paperwork requirements - HB 884: HCS
Personal telecommunications devices, school policy regarding student use of - HB 266
Personnel vacancies - HB 437: HCA(2)
Personnel, appeals, grievances and complaints - HB 639
Posting
  • of preamble to the Kentucky Constitution - SB 68: HFA(1)
  • preamble to Kentucky Constitution - HB 157: HFA(1)
Prayer, student-initiated - HB 135
Prevailing wage, exemption, school district buildings, construction - SB 237
Principal's spouse, employment of - SB 287
Principals,
  • authority to enter into contracts - HB 285
Principles of ethical behavior for students - HB 589
Principle's spouse, employment of - SB 287: HFA(1)
Probationers and parolees required pursuit of GED - HB 60
Professional
  • development for middle school mathematics teachers - SB 77: HCS(1)
  • growth fund, education personnel, professional preparation of - SB 77: HCS(2)
Property
  • tax assessment, property in a warehouse or distribution center, exemption - HB 749
  • tax, assessment of coal - SB 120
  • tax, assessment of coal as real property addition - HB 293
Public employees' minimum wage, increase in - HB 741, 836
Publishing
  • financial report, summary in the newspaper - HB 984: HCA(2)
  • financial reports, summary in the newspaper - HB 984
Pupils, exemptions from school attendance, approval by chiropractors - HB 779
Regular election day, repeal of prohibition to open schools on any - HB 347: HCS
Religious texts for instructional purposes, use of - HB 814
Reorganization, Department of Education, Executive Order 98-1671 - HB 79
Reporting and paperwork requirements, waiver by Kentucky Board of Education - HB 884
Reports, monitoring accuracy of Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education - SB 280: SFA(1)
Retired teachers teaching in critical shortage areas - HB 548
Retirement,
  • noncertified employees of school board, sick leave - HB 675: HCS
  • school board employees, sick leave - HB 675
  • sick leave benefits for teachers - HB 641
Safety, Eddie Eagle Elementary Education Program - SR 101
Salaries of classified employees, study of - HCR 114
Scholarship program for Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Civil Air Patrol Cadets at public universities - HJR 141: HFA(3)
School
  • boards, permit agreements with local governments to provide road work - HB 61: HFA(1)
  • buses, safety and discipline guidelines - HB 28
  • calendars, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday - HB 347
  • council membership and operations - SB 265
  • councils, community member - SB 76: HFA(2)
  • councils, community member, addition of - HB 717
  • councils, membership requirements - SB 46: SCS
  • councils, parent representatives, part-time employees - HB 970
  • councils, posting of preamble to Kentucky Constitution, require - SB 1: HFA(6); SJR 57: HFA (1); HB 814: HFA (1)
  • councils, principal as nonvoting member - HB 717
  • councils, principal candidates - SB 46: HFA(2); SB 76: HFA (3)
  • councils, responsibilities of - HB 45
  • curriculum, not to validate homosexuality or advance witchcraft - SB 1: HFA(7)
  • district referendum on Ten Commandments and curriculum on their historical impact - HB 111
  • district's current facility plan, approval by Kentucky Board of Education - HB 261
  • dropouts, prevention of - HB 77
  • employees, sick leave, use for catastrophic loss - HB 373: HCS
  • facilities construction, available local revenue for - HB 261: HCS
  • facility, construction plans, available local revenue, change in definition - HB 261
  • finance offices to report to superintendent - HB 668: HCA(1)
  • finance, Interim Joint Committee on Education to conduct study on - HCR 127: HFA(1)
  • funding, average daily membership - HB 976
  • fundraising activities - HB 382: HCS
  • holiday, Veterans Day - HB 347: HFA(1)
  • media librarian - HB 324: SFA(1)
  • Media Librarians, duties and employment of - HB 324: HCS
  • policies, joint effort of council and principal, requirement governing personnel selection - SB 76
  • principal, authority to enter contracts for goods and services - HB 285: HCS
  • report card summary published in publication of monthly issue - HB 984: HCA(1)
  • safety, funds distributed on a per pupil basis - SB 395
  • superintendents' contracts, annual extension of, provision for - HB 420
  • term, increase in the number of days beginning FY 2004 - HB 48
  • textbooks and instructional materials - SB 91
  • to careers programs, services to parochial and private school students in - HB 681
  • uniforms, adoption of dress code requiring - HJR 14
  • volunteers, criminal records check of - HB 136: SCA(1)
School-based
  • decision making council members, bus drivers - SB 46: SCA(1)
  • decision making council membership, teacher members, residency requirement, deletion - SB 16
  • decision making council, classified employee, addition to - HB 669
  • decision making council, high school student as a nonvoting member - HB 134
  • decision making councils - SB 76: HFA(1)
  • decision making councils, membership, terms of members on - SB 46: HFA(1)
  • decision making councils, qualifications of parent representatives - SB 46
  • decision making councils, requirements governing parent members, change - SB 76
  • decision making councils, service by nonresident teacher members - SB 76
  • decision making, teacher members - HB 437: HFA(7)
School-related extracurricular activities on Sunday, encourage prohibition of - HJR 56
Schools, closing on primary as well as general election day - HB 350
Secondary
  • area technology centers, employees, free college tuition for - SB 240
  • school teachers, alternative certification, veterans - HB 76
SEEK and school finance issues, Interim Joint Committee on Education to conduct study on - HCR 127: HCS
Sick
  • leave for public school teachers and employees - HB 126
  • leave for school employees - HB 126: HCS
Solid waste and recycling program, to be taught in schools - HB 959
Speech-language
  • pathologists, teacher certification for - HB 161
  • pathology assistants, teacher certification for - HB 161: HCS
  • pathology in schools - HB 161: SCA(1)
State
  • Department and Board, encouragement of display of historic documents - SJR 57: SCS
  • employees, transfer to local districts - SB 177
  • Textbook Commission, public inspection and public hearing on instructional materials - SB 91: HFA(4)
Student
  • preparation promotion, criteria for grades 5, 9, and 12, and remediation rates, study of - HCR 88
  • transportation, safety policies for - HJR 101
Student, teachers adherence to code of ethics, teachers, testing of out-of-state - HB 956
Students, dropout prevention - SB 1; HB 185
Study of high school dropouts - SJR 75; HJR 3
Study, school finance - HCR 127
Superintendent, contract extension for - HB 420: HCS
Support personnel, termination for cause for, pretermination hearing for - HB 699
Tax
  • credit, dependent attending a nonpublic school - HB 502: HFA(21)
  • credit, students attending parochial or private school - HB 442
  • levies in excess of compensating rate, voter approval required - SB 151
Teacher
  • evaluation, middle school - HB 437: HFA(5)
  • salaries and benefits, study of - SCR 88
  • subject matter preparation, requirements for - HB 437: HCA(1)
  • tribunals - SB 143: SCA(1),(2)
  • tribunals, procedures - SB 143
Teacher, assessment and certification of - HB 956: HCS
Teachers
  • and employees, sick leave bank for - HB 373; HB 373: SFA (1)
  • for critical shortage areas - HB 519
  • national board certification, incentives - HB 25
  • retirement, critical shortage areas - HB 519: HFA(1)
Teachers'
  • retirement, death benefit, cited as the Baughn Benefit - HB 641: HFA(1)
  • retirement, reemployment in critical shortage areas - HB 519: HCS
Teachers,
  • compensation, preparation and continuing education - HB 437: HCS
  • disciplinary action by EPSB relating to certificates - HB 623
  • mathematics education programs for - SB 77: HFA(1)
  • middle school mathematics, professional development for - SB 77: SCS
  • preparation and continuing education, compensation, evaluation - HB 437
  • preparation of - HB 437: HFA(8)
  • professional development, preparation, compensation, evaluation, CCR - SB 77: CCR
  • supplemental compensation for - HB 437: SFA(2), HFA (1),(6)
Ten commandments, osting of - HB 45
Terroristic threatening, use of weapon of mass destruction - HB 47: HCS
Textbooks - SB 91: HCS
Textbooks, evaluation criteria for - SB 91: HFA(3)
Tornado emergency procedures - SB 229
Transportation of preschool through eighth grade pupils, reimbursement for - HB 333
Truant students, agreement by board of education for police to take into custody - HB 847
Uniform grading scale for determining high school student eligibility for merit scholarships - SB 204
United
  • States and Kentucky state flags, program of instruction - HB 506
  • States flag, program of instruction - HB 506: HCA(1), HFA (1)
Utility gross receipts tax, exemption from for certain families - HB 868
Veterans
  • Day, closing of public schools - SB 67
  • of the Armed Forces, alternative teaching certification for - HB 76: HFA(1)
Vision
  • examinations upon entering, 30 day grace period for - HB 706: HCS(2)
  • examinations upon entering, requirement for - HB 706
Volunteers,
  • required state criminal records checks for public school - HB 136
  • state criminal records check in public schools - HB 136: HCS
Voucher program for students to attend approved private schools - HB 455
Weapon of mass destruction, use of - HB 47
Weapons on school property - SB 256: HFA(2); SB 260: HFA (1)

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