KRS 158.060: Access to teacher employment contract -- School month and school day --

Duty-free lunch period -- Nonteaching time for teachers.

(1) Each teacher shall be provided access to a copy of his or her employment contract

upon request.

(2) Twenty (20) school days, or days in which teachers are actually employed in the

schoolroom, shall constitute a school month in the common schools.

(3) Each full -time teacher shall be provided with a duty -free lunch period each day

during the regularly scheduled stu dent lunch period. The duty -free lunch period

shall be not less than the length of the lunch period specified in the school calendar

approved by the chief state school officer. A full -time teacher may be assigned to

lunch room duty during the regularly sch eduled student lunch period only for an

amount of time equal to the noninstructional time in excess of fifty -five (55)

minutes included in the teacher's daily schedule. The calculation of noninstructional

time shall not include the teacher's duty -free lunc h period, the time teachers are

required to be at school prior to the start of the student's instructional day, or the

time teachers are required to remain at school after the students are dismissed.

(4) Except for children with disabilities and children a ttending the primary school

program who may attend a program of less than six (6) hours per day under policy

adopted by the local school district board of education and approved by the

commissioner of education and children attending a school district wher e the local

board has approved a schedule that provides at least the equivalent of six (6) hours

of daily instruction during the school year, a minimum of six (6) hours of actual

school work shall constitute a school day. Kindergarten programs may be opera ted

for less than six (6) hours without state board approval. The Kentucky Board of

Education, upon recommendation of the chief state school officer, shall develop and

approve regulations governing make up by school districts of whole days missed

due to em ergencies, or partial days missed as a result of shortening regularly

scheduled school days due to emergencies.

(5) Teachers shall be provided additional time for nonteaching activities. The

nonteaching time shall be used to provide teachers opportunities for professional

development activities as provided in KRS 156.095, instructional planning, school -

based decision making as provided in KRS 160.345, curriculum development, and

outreach activities involving their students' families and the community.

(6) Character education programs and activities shall be considered valuable and

legitimate components of the actual school work constituting a school day under

subsection (4) of this section.