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Last action · March 15, 2025
Signed By Governor (Acts Ch. 17)

Introduced February 4, 2025

House
Signed By Governor
2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the evaluation of educator preparation programs.

Amend KRS 158.840 to require the Education Professional Standards Board, rather than the Council on Postsecondary Education, to ensure teacher education programs provide highly skilled teachers; require the board to report to the Legislative Research Commission every three years and regularly report program data to an external evaluator.

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This bill shifts responsibility for overseeing teacher education programs from the Council on Postsecondary Education to the Education Professional Standards Board, which will now be in charge of ensuring those programs produce highly skilled teachers. The board will also be required to report program data to an outside evaluator and submit a report to the state legislature every three years. This change is meant to strengthen accountability for how well Kentucky's teacher training programs are…

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Legislative History

Mar 15, 2025 · House
Signed By Governor (Acts Ch. 17)
Mar 12, 2025 · House
Delivered To Governor (clerical)
Mar 12, 2025 · House
Enrolled, Signed By President Of The Senate
Mar 12, 2025 · House
Enrolled, Signed By Speaker Of The House
Mar 12, 2025 · House
Received In House (clerical)
Mar 12, 2025 · Senate
3rd Reading, Passed 38-0
Yea: 38
Nay: 0
Mar 11, 2025 · Senate
Posted For Passage In The Regular Orders Of The Day For Wednesday, March 12, 2025 (clerical)
Mar 7, 2025 · Senate
2nd Reading, To Rules (clerical)
Feb 19, 2025 · House
3rd Reading, Passed 91-0
Yea: 91
Nay: 0
Absent: 9

Primary Sponsor

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Emily Callaway

Representative · House District 037

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emily.callaway@kylegislature.gov

Co-sponsors (2)

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James Tipton

Representative · House District 053

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James.Tipton@kylegislature.gov
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Portrait of Beverly Chester-Burton

Beverly Chester-Burton

Representative · House District 044

Co-sponsor
beverly.chesterburton@kylegislature.gov

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