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KY HB3

AN ACT relating to school curriculum.


summary

Introduced
01/31/2018
In Committee
04/02/2018
Crossed Over
02/13/2018
Passed
04/02/2018
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
04/13/2018

Introduced Session

2018 Regular Session

Bill Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention.

AI Summary

This bill: - Requires each school district to implement essential workplace ethics programs for elementary, middle, and high school students starting in the 2019-2020 school year. These programs will focus on developing characteristics critical for workplace success, such as adaptability, diligence, initiative, knowledge, reliability, remaining drug-free, and working well with others. - Directs local workforce investment boards to recommend best practices for implementing these essential workplace ethics programs. - Requires local school boards to establish essential workplace ethics indicators for middle and high school students and to award a diploma seal, certificate, or other symbol to students who demonstrate attainment of these indicators. - Amends the law on academic standards and assessments to require the essential workplace ethics program to be included in the school profile report. - Requires the Office of Drug Control Policy to develop recommendations for instruction on drug abuse prevention in practical living skills education, which the Department of Education will publish for use by schools. - Declares an emergency to ensure the drug abuse prevention instruction is implemented quickly.

Committee Categories

Education

Sponsors (14)

Last Action

signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 158) (on 04/13/2018)

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