AN ACT relating to schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement in schools.

Amend KRS 160.346 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually identify schools for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI); require the audit of a CSI school to include an assessment and recommendation regarding the principal's capacity to lead the turnaround effort; remove the required use of a turnaround vendor by a CSI school; require the department to establish professional learning for teachers in a CSI school; require the superintendent of the district in which the CSI school is located to adopt evidence-based curriculum and select high-quality instructional materials for the school.

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Introduced: February 4, 2025

Last action: March 26, 2025

(Acts Ch. 92)

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This bill updates how Kentucky handles its lowest-performing schools, known as comprehensive support and improvement schools. It requires the state education department to annually identify these schools, evaluate whether each school's principal can lead a turnaround effort, provide professional learning for teachers in those schools, and direct district superintendents to adopt research-backed curriculum and high-quality teaching materials. The bill also removes the previous requirement that these schools hire an outside turnaround vendor. Who it may affect: students and families in Kentucky's lowest-performing schools, teachers and principals at those schools, and local school district superintendents.

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