KRS 161.165: Recruitment of minority teachers.

(1) The Kentucky Department of Education in cooperation with the Education

Professional Standards Board, the Kentucky Board of Education, local school

districts, universities, and colleges, and the Council on Postsecondary Education

shall review and revise as needed the strategic plan for increasing the number of

minority teachers and administrators in the Commonwealth. The plan shall include,

but not be limited to, recommendations on ways to:

(a) Identify methods for increasing the percentage of minority educa tors in

proportion to the number of minority students;

(b) Establish programs to identify, recruit, and prepare as teachers minority

persons who have already earned college degrees in other job fields;

(c) Create awareness among secondary school guidance c ounselors of the need

for minority teachers.

(2) The Kentucky Department of Education and the Education Professional Standards

Board shall promote programs that increase the percentage of minorities who enter

and successfully complete a four (4) year teach er preparation program and provide

support to minority students in meeting qualifying requirements for students

entering a teacher preparation program at institutions of higher education.

(3) The Kentucky Department of Education with input from the Educati on Professional

Standards Board shall periodically submit a report to the Interim Joint Committee

on Education that evaluates the results of these efforts and includes accompanying

recommendations to establish a continuing program for increasing the number of

minorities in teacher education.