House Bill 59

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Title AN ACT relating to early high school graduation.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 284
Sponsors B. Montell, T. Moore
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 2014-2015 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and conditional admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; 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 shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on a world language proficiency assessment approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; establish the Early Graduation Certificate and the processes for awarding it; amend KRS 158.140 to restrict 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.
Index Headings of Original Version Education, Elementary and Secondary - Early graduation program of study, creation of
Education, Higher - Early high school graduates, KEES awards, process for determining
Education, Higher - Postsecondary education, acceptance of early high school graduates
State Agencies - Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, administrator of funds

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12/12/12
  • Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
01/08/13
  • introduced in House
  • to Education (H)


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