AN ACT relating to educational cooperatives.

Amend KRS 160.290 to provide that an interlocal cooperative board is an extension school district and all statutes and administrative regulations that apply to school districts extend to interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.070 to provide that the Kentucky Board of Education has the management and control of interlocal cooperative boards and that the board shall manage interlocal cooperative boards in the same manner and method as the board manages school districts; amend KRS 156.010…

Introduced: February 14, 2025

Last action: February 25, 2025

To Primary And Secondary Education (H)

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This bill would place educational cooperatives — organizations where multiple school districts share services and resources — under the same oversight rules that currently apply to individual school districts. It gives the Kentucky Board of Education authority over these cooperative boards, requires their finances to be audited and monitored by the state commissioner of education, and makes it a misdemeanor for cooperative board officers or employees to block those audits. Who it may affect: school district administrators, staff and board members of interlocal educational cooperatives, and the students and communities those cooperatives serve.

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