KRS 160.340: Reports by boards to Kentucky Board of Education -- Filing of policies on

specified matters.

(1) Each board of education shall, on the forms prepared by the chief state school

officer and approved by the Kentucky Board of Education, prepare a nd submit to

the Kentucky Board of Education reports on all phases of its school service. Each

board may prepare and publish for the information of the public a report on the

progress of its schools.

(2) Each board of education shall file in the board's of fice its policies relating to the

following matters:

(a) Transportation of pupils;

(b) Discipline and conduct of pupils;

(c) Limitations or restrictions on use of school facilities;

(d) Conduct of meetings of the board of education, including policies on t he

calling of executive sessions;

(e) Personnel policies that apply to certified employees, including fringe benefits,

salary schedules, nonclassroom duties, in -service training, teacher -student

ratio, hiring, assignment, transfer, dismissal, suspension, r einstatement,

promotion, and demotion;

(f) Evaluation of certified employees;

(g) Selection of textbooks and instructional materials;

(h) Expenditure and accounting for school funds, including all special funds; and

(i) Policies dealing with school-based decision making.

(3) (a) The local board of education may adopt a policy requiring that each school

council, or if none exists, the principal, make an annual report at a public

meeting of the board describing the school's progress in meeting the

educational goals set forth in KRS 158.6451 and district goals established by

the board.

(b) Biennially, the local board shall review in a public meeting the portion of each

school's consolidated plan that sets forth the activities and sched ule to reduce

the achievement gaps for the various groups of students as required in KRS

158.649. If a district has more than twenty (20) schools, the district may

review the achievement gap data of each school in a comprehensive district

report at a regul arly scheduled meeting of the board. The report shall include

the schools' and district's plans to reduce any identified gaps in student

achievement.

(4) It is intended that these policies shall cover matters within the authority and

discretion of the dist rict board of education and not matters otherwise required by

law or regulation. Such policies shall be filed in the board's office by August 15,

1974, shall be kept up to date by filing annual amendments thereto each August 15

and shall be public records.