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This bill modifies the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf by establishing new timelines for appointing a search committee and the school's superintendent, and by clarifying the superintendent's duties, emphasizing the prioritization of local, full-time candidates, and preventing recent employees or members of the Kentucky Department of Education or Kentucky Board of Education from becoming superintendent for one year after leaving their positions. It also creates a new Kentucky School for the Deaf Board with specific membership and duties, replacing the previous advisory board, and grants this new board the authority to develop policies for the school's operation and to direct the superintendent's work, with a majority of its members being deaf or hard of hearing. Furthermore, the bill allows the Kentucky Board of Education to delegate the power to expel a student from the Kentucky School for the Deaf to this new board, and it mandates that the initial members of the Kentucky School for the Deaf Board will be the current members of the advisory board, serving out the remainder of their terms.

Education

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb528.html