200.703 Duties of Early Childhood Advisory Council -- Implementation of
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programs -- Plan for identification of early childhood development
funding priorities -- Disbanding or suspension of councils -- Expiration of
authority, councils, and initiatives -- Requests for proposals.
(1)The Early Childhood Advisory Council is responsible for the following:
(a)Promoting the vision for Kentucky's early childhood system;
(b)Advocating for improved quality of early childhood services;
(c)Promoting the definition of school readiness and the expanded and
appropriate use of the early childhood standards;
(d)Strengthening state, regional, and local level coordination and
collaboration among the various sectors and settings of early childhood
programs in the state;
(e)Identifying opportunities and strategies to reduce barriers to coordination
and collaboration among existing private, federal, and state-funded early
childhood programs;
(f)Developing and implementing recommendations for:
1. Increasing overall participation of children in existing federal, state,
and local child care and early education programs, including
outreach to underrepresented and special populations;
2. Establishing or improving core elements of the state early childhood
system;
3. Enhancing the professional development system and career ladder
for early childhood educators and caregivers; and
4. Promoting high-quality state early learning standards and
undertaking efforts to ensure the development and use of
high-quality comprehensive early learning standards, as appropriate;
(g)Assessing the capacity and effectiveness of institutes of higher education
in the state toward supporting the development of early childhood
educators;
(h)Facilitating the development or enhancement of high-quality systems of
early childhood care and education designed to improve school readiness
through one
(1)or more of the following activities:
1. Promoting school preparedness of children from birth through
school entry;
2. Supporting professional development, recruitment, and retention
initiatives for early childhood educators and caregivers;
3. Enhancing existing early childhood education and development
programs and services;
4. Carrying out other activities consistent with the state's plan and
application; and
5. Establishing priorities for programs and the expenditure of funds
that include but are not limited to the following:
a. Implementation of public health initiatives identified by the
General Assembly, including those listed in KRS 211.690 and
199.8945;
b. Provision of preconception and prenatal vitamins, with priority
for folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects;
c. Voluntary immunization for children not covered by public or
private health insurance;
d. Expanding availability of high-quality, affordable early
child-care and education options; and
e. Increasing public awareness of the importance of the early
childhood years for the well-being of all of Kentucky's citizens;
(i)Requesting reports and issuing progress updates on state and federally
funded services that impact the quality of Kentucky's early childhood
system;
(j)Receiving, requesting, and utilizing, consistent with this section, federal,
state, and private funds, including from philanthropic sources;
(k)Involving the corporate community, county judge/executives, and mayors
in supporting issues of importance to working families with young children
in the Commonwealth;
(l)Collecting and disseminating information about the various ways
business and local government can become involved in supporting early
childhood; and
(m)Other duties and responsibilities as designated by the Governor.
(2)The council shall develop a state plan on a biennial basis that identifies early
childhood development funding priorities. Every two
(2)years the council shall
review its priorities and make necessary adjustments to its state plan. The state
plan shall incorporate priorities included in the final report and
recommendations of the Governor's Task Force on Early Childhood
Development and Education, November 2010, and recommendations identified
by the community early childhood councils. The council shall file a report on the
state plan with the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by July
15 of odd-numbered years.
(3)Programs funded by the council shall be implemented by the appropriate
agencies within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Education and
Labor Cabinet, the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or other appropriate
administrative agency.
(4)The council shall assure that a public hearing is held on the expenditure of
funds. Advertisement of the public hearing shall be published at least once but
may be published two
(2)more times, if one
(1)publication occurs not less than
seven
(7)days nor more than twenty-one
(21)days before the scheduled date
of the public hearing.
(5)The council shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with
KRS Chapter 13A to:
(a)Coordinate and improve early childhood development services,
outcomes, and policies;
(b)Establish procedures that relate to its governance;
(c)Designate service areas of the Commonwealth where the community
early childhood councils may be established to identify and address the
early childhood development needs of young children and their families
for the communities that they serve;
(d)Establish procedures that relate to the monitoring of grants, services, and
activities of the community early childhood councils and their governance;
(e)Establish procedures for accountability and measurement of the success
of programs that receive funds from the council; and
(f)Establish standards for the payment of funds to a designated service
provider and grantee of a community early childhood council. These
standards shall include requirements relating to:
1. The financial management of funds paid to grantees;
2. The maintenance of records; and
3. An independent audit of the use of grant funds.
(6)The council may disband or suspend a community early childhood council, and
may remove one
(1)or more members for nonperformance or malfeasance.
The council may also recover funds that have been determined by the council
to have been misappropriated or misspent in relation to a grant award.
(7)An appeal to the council may be made by a community early childhood council
as to a decision made by the council on the disbanding or suspension of a
community early childhood council, service provider, or grantee on a
determination that funds have been misappropriated or misspent and are
subject to recovery. The appeal shall be conducted in accordance with KRS
Chapter 13B.
(8)The council, community early childhood councils established by the council,
and initiatives funded by the council with expenditures from the early childhood
development fund shall expire when:
(a)Funds are no longer designated to the Commonwealth from the master
settlement agreement signed on November 22, 1998, between the
participating tobacco manufacturers and the forty
(40)settling states or
related federal legislation; or
(b)Funds are no longer designated to the early childhood development fund
from gifts, grants, or federal funds to fund the council, the community
early childhood councils established by the council, or any programs that
had been funded by the council with expenditures from the early
childhood development fund.
(9)The council shall develop a request for proposal process by which local early
childhood councils may request any funding appropriated to the council for use
by the councils.