{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-161.164","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 161.164","heading":"Political activity prohibited -- Discrimination prohibited -- Instructional","body":"materials requirements -- Student not required to advocate for perspective\nwith which he or she does not agree -- Employee not required to engage in\ntraining that stereotypes group.\n(1) No employee of the local school district shall take part in the management or\nactivities of any political campaign for school board.\n(2) No candidate for school board shall solicit or accept any political assessment,\nsubscription, contribution, or service of any employee of the school district.\n(3) No person shall use or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any official authority or\ninfluence, whether possessed or anticipated, to secure or attempt to secure for any\nperson an appointme nt or advantage in appointment to a position as teacher or\nemployee of any district board of education, or an increase in pay or other\nadvantage in employment in any such position, for the purpose of influencing the\nvote or political action of any person.\n(4) No teacher or employee of any district board of education shall be appointed or\npromoted to, or demoted or dismissed from, any position or in any way favored or\ndiscriminated against with respect to employment because of his political or\nreligious opinions or affiliations or ethnic origin or race or color or sex or age or\ndisabling condition.\n(5) Any instruction or instructional materials on current, controversial topics related to\npublic policy or social affairs provided to public school or public char ter school\nstudents, regardless of whether the individual that provides the instruction is\nemployed by the local school district or public charter school, shall be:\n(a) Within the range of knowledge, understanding, age, and maturity of the\nstudents receiving the instruction; and\n(b) Relevant, objective, nondiscriminatory, and respectful to the differing\nperspectives of students.\n(6) An employee of a public school district or public charter school shall not violate a\nstudent's First Amendment rights by requiring or incentivizing a student to advocate\nin a civic space on behalf of a perspective with which the student or the parent or\nguardian of a minor student does not agree.\n(7) An employee of a local school district or public charter school shall not be req uired\nto engage in training, orientation, or therapy that coerces the employee to stereotype\nany group.\n(8) The local superintendent shall inform all school employees of the provisions of this\nsection.","path":["KRS Chapter 161"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=53058","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:51:10Z","sha256":"3749b78fc6bd86e812284d6940b300060781a43d83a2b724e4b077fba4dab59f","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-161.163","next":"us-ky/krs-161.165"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}