Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to override a veto and pass a bill that establishes a 25 million dollar scholarship program using tax credits for private schools.

Highlights:

• Requires the Kentucky Board of Education, upon recommendation of the commissioner of education, to prescribe procedures by which this requirement may be reduced during any year for any district which employs teachers for less than 185 days, in which case the eligibility of a district for participation in the public school fund shall be in proportion to the length of time teachers are employed (Sec. 1-1).

• Specifies if the school term is less than 185 days, including not less than 170 student attendance days or 1,062 hours of instructional time, for any reason not approved by the Kentucky Board of Education on the recommendation of the commissioner, the eligibility of a district for participation in the public school fund shall be in proportion to the length of term the schools operate (Sec. 1-2).

• Prohibits any school district which fails to comply with this law from participating in varsity competition in any sport for one year (Sec. 1-6).

• Requires a board of education to adopt a nonresident pupil policy to govern the terms under which the district shall allow enrollment of nonresident children. The policy does not discriminate between nonresident children but may recognize enrollment capacity (Sec. 2-1).

• Specifies \any board of education may charge a reasonable tuition fee per month for each child attending its schools whose parent, guardian, or other legal custodian is not a bona fide resident of the district. Any controversy as to the fee shall be submitted to the Kentucky Board of Education for final settlement (Sec. 2-2).

• Establishes when it appears to the board of education of any school district that it is convenient for a pupil of any grade residing in that district to attend an approved public school in another district, the board of education may enter into a tuition contract with the public school authorities of the other school district for that purpose, but before a contract is entered into with public school authorities in another state the school shall have been approved by the state school authorities of that state through the grades in which the pupil belongs (Sec. 2-3).

• Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission with options on how to ensure the equitable transfer of local effort funds so that funds follow a nonresident student to a school district of enrollment from a school district of residence (Sec. 3).

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Vetoed by Governor Andy Beshear

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that establishes a 25 million dollar scholarship program using tax credits for private schools.

Highlights:

• Requires the Kentucky Board of Education, upon recommendation of the commissioner of education, to prescribe procedures by which this requirement may be reduced during any year for any district which employs teachers for less than 185 days, in which case the eligibility of a district for participation in the public school fund shall be in proportion to the length of time teachers are employed (Sec. 1-1).

• Specifies if the school term is less than 185 days, including not less than 170 student attendance days or 1,062 hours of instructional time, for any reason not approved by the Kentucky Board of Education on the recommendation of the commissioner, the eligibility of a district for participation in the public school fund shall be in proportion to the length of term the schools operate (Sec. 1-2).

• Prohibits any school district which fails to comply with this law from participating in varsity competition in any sport for one year (Sec. 1-6).

• Requires a board of education to adopt a nonresident pupil policy to govern the terms under which the district shall allow enrollment of nonresident children. The policy does not discriminate between nonresident children but may recognize enrollment capacity (Sec. 2-1).

• Specifies \any board of education may charge a reasonable tuition fee per month for each child attending its schools whose parent, guardian, or other legal custodian is not a bona fide resident of the district. Any controversy as to the fee shall be submitted to the Kentucky Board of Education for final settlement (Sec. 2-2).

• Establishes when it appears to the board of education of any school district that it is convenient for a pupil of any grade residing in that district to attend an approved public school in another district, the board of education may enter into a tuition contract with the public school authorities of the other school district for that purpose, but before a contract is entered into with public school authorities in another state the school shall have been approved by the state school authorities of that state through the grades in which the pupil belongs (Sec. 2-3).

• Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission with options on how to ensure the equitable transfer of local effort funds so that funds follow a nonresident student to a school district of enrollment from a school district of residence (Sec. 3).

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