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Senate Bill 69

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Title AN ACT relating to early high school graduation and making an appropriation therefor.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 229
Sponsor K. Winters
Summary of Original Version Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to be numbered KRS 158.142 to establish the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2012-2013 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; establish the Early Graduation Scholarship Certificate and the processes for awarding it and using it; create a new section of KRS 164 to create the early graduation scholarship fund to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 157.360 to describe how state funds from the SEEK appropriation will be transferred to the scholarship fund to support early high school graduates; amend KRS 158.140 to limit the powers of the Kentucky Board of Education or a local board from imposing graduation requirements that would prohibit a student from pursuing an early graduation program; amend KRS 164.7879 to prescribe how an annual KEES award for an early graduate would be calculated; amend KRS 157.420 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Index Headings of Original Version Education, Higher - Postsecondary education, acceptance of early high school graduates
State Agencies - Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, administrator of funds
Education, Finance - High school early graduation certificate, definition of
Education, Higher - Early high school graduates, KEES awards, process for determining
Appropriations - Early graduation scholarship fund
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Early graduation program of study, creation of
Education, Finance - Early graduation trust fund, creation of
Proposed Amendments Senate Committee Substitute 1
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01/07/11
  • introduced in Senate
02/01/11
  • to Education (S)
02/09/11
  • taken from Education (S)
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Education (S)
02/10/11
  • reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute
02/15/11
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 15, 2011
  • 3rd reading, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute
02/16/11
  • received in House
02/17/11
  • to Education (H)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment Senate Committee Substitute 1
Summary Retain original provisions, except specify that students shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on each of the end-of-course examinations that make up the high school achievement portion of the accountability system under KRS 158.6453 and that students obtain a qualifying benchmark score on a world language proficiency assessment approved by the Kentucky Board of Education.
Index Headings Education, Higher - Postsecondary education, acceptance of early high school graduates
State Agencies - Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, administrator of funds
Education, Finance - High school early graduation certificate, definition of
Education, Higher - Early high school graduates, KEES awards, process for determining
Appropriations - Early graduation scholarship fund
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Early graduation program of study, creation of
Education, Finance - Early graduation trust fund, creation of

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