§ 156.005 Chief state school officer defined for KRS Chapters 156 to 168
§ 156.007 Local Superintendents Advisory Council
§ 156.010 Commissioner’s authority to organize Department of Education — Composition — Functions
§ 156.016 Abolition of employment positions — Reorganization
§ 156.018 Role of department with respect to program created by KRS 158.798
§ 156.024 Department’s budget requests to be submitted to state board
§ 156.026 Credits allowed transferred district employee
§ 156.027 Preferential procurement status for publishers who supply materials in alternative formats for students with disabilities — Electronic versions of text that are compatible with Braille translation and speech synthesis software — Digital files
§ 156.029 Kentucky Board of Education — Membership — Functions
§ 156.031 Existing State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education to remain active until successor board appointed
§ 156.035 Legal status of board — Administration of fund
§ 156.040 Qualification of board members
§ 156.060 Quorum — Meetings — Location of office — Compensation
§ 156.070 General powers and duties of state board — Administrative regulations — Designation of teams — Eligibility to play
§ 156.071 Delegation of taking evidence and writing recommendation of disposition to hearing officer or panel — Compensatory time for staff conducting school facility public hearings
§ 156.072 Waiver of reporting requirement
§ 156.074 Purchase contract for supplies, equipment — Specifications — Terms
§ 156.076 Price contracts information to be furnished district boards — Purchase conditions
§ 156.095 Professional development programs — Professional development coordinator — Long-term improvement plans — Suicide prevention awareness information — Suicide prevention training — Active shooter training, also applicable to charter schools — Evi
§ 156.097 Teacher institutes — Regulation
§ 156.101 Purpose of section — Definition of “instructional leader” — Instructional leader improvement program
§ 156.106 Critical shortage areas — Appointment of retired teachers and administrators — Administrative regulations
§ 156.108 Districts of innovation — Definitions — Approval by Kentucky Board of Education — Administrative regulations to prescribe conditions and procedures to be used by local boards
§ 156.111 Superintendents Training Program and Assessment Center — Local board not responsible for training costs — Assessment of superintendents required — Contracts for training providers permitted
§ 156.132 Removal or suspension of public school officers — Procedure, grounds, conditions
§ 156.136 Vacancies caused by suspension — Appointment — Term — Payment
§ 156.138 Duty of Attorney General
§ 156.142 Jurisdiction
§ 156.147 Education Management Selection Commission — Selection of first commissioner of education
§ 156.1475 Date of appointment of first commissioner of education
§ 156.148 Commissioner of education — Selection — Term — Duties
§ 156.152 Price contract agreements for purchase of school buses
§ 156.153 School bus standards — “School bus” defined — Use of clean transportation fuels
§ 156.154 Information respecting established price contract agreements — Purchase conditions of district boards
§ 156.160 Promulgation of administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education — Voluntary compliance — Penalty
§ 156.162 Elective course on religious scripture — Purpose — Restrictions — Inclusion of course standards in program of studies
§ 156.190 Call and conduct of school conferences
§ 156.200 Examination and supervision of reports and accounts of boards of education and educational institutions
§ 156.210 Powers of chief state school officer
§ 156.230 Chief state school officer to prepare publications
§ 156.240 Chief state school officer to electronically publish school laws
§ 156.250 Biennial report on education
§ 156.255 Definitions for KRS 156.255 to 156.295
§ 156.265 State Committee for School District Audits
§ 156.275 Accountant — Selection — Reports
§ 156.285 Access to records — Witnesses — Subpoena
§ 156.295 Offenses — Penalties
§ 156.395 Definition of “instructional materials” for KRS 156.400 to 156.476
§ 156.400 School subjects’ adoption groups — Textbook contracts and purchases
§ 156.405 State Textbook Commission — Textbook reviewers
§ 156.407 Selection of textbook reviewers — Review and evaluation process
§ 156.410 Evaluation of textbooks and programs
§ 156.415 Conditions to be complied with before textbooks and programs adopted or purchased
§ 156.420 Bond conditions for person, firm, or corporation offering textbooks
§ 156.425 Form of statement and bond — Supplemental statement and bond
§ 156.430 Violation of bond — Suit on bond
§ 156.433 Instructional materials eligible for purchase with state textbook funds — Review procedure — List of approved materials
§ 156.435 Adoption of lists — Rejections — Execution of contracts — Publication of lists
§ 156.437 Administrative regulations for listing, adoption, and purchase of subject programs
§ 156.438 Administrative regulations for reviewing and resolving claims of factual errors in adopted textbooks
§ 156.439 District allocation for textbook and instructional materials — Use — School plans — Carryover
§ 156.440 Sample copies of materials selected and placed on state multiple list of recommended textbooks
§ 156.445 Only recommended textbook or program to be used as basal title — Exceptions — When changes to be effective — Approval of materials for private and parochial schools
§ 156.460 School official or employee not to act as book agent
§ 156.465 Reward for adoption of books forbidden
§ 156.470 Copy of recommended titles to remain in specified office for period of adoption
§ 156.474 Multiple textbook adoptions
§ 156.475 Title
§ 156.476 Textbooks for children with impaired vision — Requirement that publisher of adopted textbook furnish American Printing House for the Blind with text in electronic format
§ 156.480 Employees of department or school districts with decision-making authority prohibited from supplying goods or services for which school funds are expended — Penalties
§ 156.483 Restrictions on employing violent offenders or persons convicted of sex crimes — Criminal record check on job applicants
§ 156.487 [Number not yet utilized.]
§ 156.488 Department to communicate core content and career-readiness standards, assist in identifying students who are academically behind or have high absentee rates or discipline problems, and develop enhanced courses to be offered
§ 156.495 Program to identify and locate missing children enrolled in Kentucky schools
§ 156.496 Family resource and youth services centers — Design — Core components — Location — Grant program — Prohibition on abortion counseling and referrals — Monetary donations
§ 156.4975 Definitions for KRS 156.496, 156.4975, and 156.4977
§ 156.4977 Grants to local school districts for family resource and youth services centers — Supplemental grant program to provide health services
§ 156.498 Alternate approval procedure for federal food program eligibility for certain organizations
§ 156.500 Appointments to reflect reasonable minority representation
§ 156.501 Student health services — Responsibilities of Department of Education and Department for Public Health — Filling of position — Funding
§ 156.502 Health services in school setting — Designated provider — Liability protection
§ 156.503 Committee to study basketball tournaments — Membership — Meetings and recommendations
§ 156.551 Definitions for KRS 156.551 to 156.555
§ 156.553 Teachers’ professional growth fund — Purposes — Courses — Duties of Department of Education — Professional development programs — Administrative regulations — Advancement by local boards of funds to teachers for professional development educat
§ 156.553 v2 Teachers’ professional growth fund — Purposes — Courses — Duties of Department of Education — Professional development programs — Administrative regulations — Advancement by local boards of funds to teachers for professional development educat
§ 156.555 Center for Middle School Academic Achievement — Duties — Location at college or university
§ 156.557 Definitions — Statewide framework for teaching — District personnel evaluation system — Summative evaluations — Appeals — Prohibition against disclosure of confidential information — Limits on reporting of evaluation results
§ 156.560 Pilot program for performance-based professional development — Parameters determined by local board — Study and report by Department of Education
§ 156.660 Definitions
§ 156.670 Development of master plan for education technology
§ 156.671 Strategic plan for distance learning
§ 156.675 Prevention of transmission of sexually explicit materials to schools — Administrative regulations — Local school district policy on student Internet access
§ 156.690 Teachers’ computer purchase program
§ 156.710 Interstate Compact for Education
§ 156.715 Kentucky members of interstate commission
§ 156.720 Bylaws, where filed
§ 156.730 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
§ 156.735 Rights of students of civilian military employees same as those afforded in KRS 156.730
§ 156.740 Interagency Commission on Educational and Job Training Coordination — Membership
§ 156.745 Purposes — Responsibilities
§ 156.749 Administrative expenses — Meetings
§ 156.800 Definitions for KRS 156.800 to 156.860
§ 156.802 Office of Career and Technical Education — Kentucky Board of Education
§ 156.804 Organizational structure of Office of Career and Technical Education — Ombudsman
§ 156.806 Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee — Purpose — Members
§ 156.808 Personnel of Office of Career and Technical Education — Administrative regulations — Appeals to Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board
§ 156.810 Posting of full-time vacancies
§ 156.812 Employee benefits
§ 156.814 Personnel files
§ 156.816 Grounds for refusal to consider or to disqualify an applicant for, or to remove a person from, a certified or equivalent position
§ 156.818 Criminal conviction as grounds for disciplinary action
§ 156.820 Employees with continuing status — Appeals
§ 156.822 Appeal from final order of board
§ 156.824 Payment of reinstated employee
§ 156.826 Employment status
§ 156.828 Employee evaluations
§ 156.830 Coercion of employees prohibited — Lay-off priorities
§ 156.832 Procedures for lay-offs
§ 156.834 Appeal to board of lay-off by continuing status employee
§ 156.836 Appeal of board’s final order relating to lay-off of continuing status employee
§ 156.838 Prohibited activities
§ 156.840 Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board
§ 156.842 Office of Career and Technical Education to manage state-operated secondary area vocational education and technology centers
§ 156.844 Local board’s petition to commissioner of education seeking power to manage and control state-operated secondary vocational education and technology center — Issues related to transfer of employees
§ 156.846 Local board’s power to relinquish management and control of vocational education center — Issues related to transfer of employees
§ 156.848 Agreements for training workers
§ 156.850 Federal acts relating to vocational education accepted
§ 156.852 Kentucky Board of Education authorized to carry out vocational education programs
§ 156.854 State Treasurer custodian of funds
§ 156.856 Tuition and fees in secondary area vocational education and technology centers
§ 156.858 Liability insurance for motor vehicles owned or operated by office in vocational schools and centers
§ 156.860 Medical and accident insurance for students
§ 156.990 Penalties
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 156 - Department of Education

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Biennium: means the two (2) year period commencing on July 1 in each even- numbered year and ending on June 30 in the ensuing even-numbered year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010