KRS 158.6451: Legislative declaration on goals for Commonwealth's schools -- Model

curriculum framework.

(1) The General Assembly finds, declares, and establishes that:

(a) Schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement of all students;

(b) Schools shall develop their students' ability to:

1. Use communication and mathematics skills for purposes and situations

they will encounter throughout their lives;

2. Apply core concepts and principles from mathematics, the sciences, the

arts, the humanities, social studies, civics, and practical living studies to

situations they will encounter throughout their lives;

3. Become self -sufficient individuals of good character exhibiting the

qualities of altruism, citizenship, courtesy, hard work, honesty, human

worth, justice, knowledge, patriotism, respect, responsibility, and self -

discipline;

4. Become responsible members of a family, work group, or community,

including demonstrating effectiveness in community service;

5. Think critically, creatively, and inde pendently to solve problems in

school situations and in a variety of situations they will encounter in life;

6. Connect and integrate experiences and new knowledge from all subject

matter fields with what they have previously learned and build on past

learning experiences to acquire new information through various media

sources; and

7. Express their creative talents and interests in visual arts, music, dance,

and dramatic arts;

(c) Schools shall increase their students' rate of school attendance;

(d) Schools shall increase their students' graduation rates and reduce their

students' dropout and retention rates;

(e) Schools shall reduce physical and mental health barriers to learning; and

(f) Schools shall be measured on the proportion of students who make a

successful transition to work, post-secondary education, and military service.

(2) The Kentucky Board of Educatio n shall disseminate to local school districts and

schools a model curriculum framework which is directly tied to the goals,

outcomes, and assessment strategies developed pursuant to this section and KRS

158.645 and 158.6453. The framework shall provide dir ection to local districts and

schools as they develop their curriculum. The framework shall identify teaching and

assessment strategies, instructional material resources, ideas on how to incorporate

the resources of the community, a directory of model teac hing sites, alternative

ways of using school time, and strategies to incorporate character education

throughout the curriculum.