158.805 Commonwealth school improvement fund -- Purposes -- Criteria for
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grants to schools needing assistance.
(1)There is hereby created the Commonwealth school improvement fund to assist local
schools in pursuing new and innovative strategies to meet the educational needs of
the school's students and raise a school's performance level. The Kentucky Board of
Education shall utilize the Commonwealth school improvement fund to provide
grants to schools for the following purposes:
(a)To support teachers and administrators in the development of sound and
innovative approaches to improve instruction or management, including better
use of formative and summative, performance-based assessments;
(b)To assist in replicating successful programs developed in other districts
including those calculated to reduce achievement gaps as defined in KRS
158.649;
(c)To encourage cooperative instructional or management approaches to specific
school educational problems; and
(d)To encourage teachers and administrators to conduct experimental programs
to test concepts and applications being advanced as solutions to specific
educational problems.
(2)The Kentucky Board of Education shall develop criteria for awards of grants from
the Commonwealth school improvement fund to schools identified by the board as
needing assistance under KRS 158.6455.
(3)The Kentucky Board of Education shall have the sole authority to approve grants
from the fund.
(4)The Kentucky Board of Education may establish priorities for the use of the funds
and, through the Department of Education, shall provide assistance to schools in
preparing their grant proposals. The board shall require that no funds awarded
under the Commonwealth school improvement fund are used to supplant funds
from any other source. Requests may include funding for personnel costs, except
funding for personnel costs shall not continue after school improvement funds are
no longer provided. Requests for necessary equipment may be approved at the
discretion of the state board, however the cost of equipment purchased by any
grantee shall not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the total amount of money
awarded for each proposal and shall be matched by local funds on a dollar for dollar
basis.
(5)The Kentucky Board of Education shall establish maximums for specific grant
awards. All fund recipients shall provide the board with an accounting of all money
received from the fund and shall report the results and conclusions of any funded
projects to the Kentucky Board of Education. All fund recipients shall provide the
board with adequate documentation of all projects to enable replication of
successful projects in other areas of the state.