Kentucky Senate Bill 211 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 26 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-27 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to permit a local board of education to designate a persistently low-achieving school as a charter school and solicit applications for a governing board; permit a persistently low-achieving school to petition for conversion to a charter school; establish definitions and requirements for a charter school; establish charter school application process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for charter school appeals, implementation, and reporting; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to clarify charter school employee benefits; amend KRS 160.346 to add a "charter school option" as a school intervention for persistently low achieving schools.

AN ACT relating to persistently low-achieving schools.

Sen. Mike Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-27	House	to Education (H)
2014-03-26	House	received in House
2014-03-25	Senate	3rd reading, passed 22-14
2014-03-24	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 25, 2014
2014-03-21	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2014-03-20	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2014-03-11	Senate	to Education (S)
2014-03-06	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB211.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB211/bill.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB211/vote_history.pdf