Legislative Action Toolkit

2024 Big Bold Ask

Legislative Tracker on Education

Monitoring
Supports for Women and Children
Moser

Support

Big Bold Future Report

Awaiting Senate Health Services Hearing

Awaiting Senate Vote

Require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia. Require teacher candidate instruction on dyslexia.
Bojanowski

Awaiting Committee Assignment

Research-based Improvements to Mathematics Education
Tipton

Big Bold Future Report

Awaiting Concurrence

The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools.
Miles

School Choice and Education Issues

Signed by Secretary of State

Abolish the Council on Post Secondary Education (CPE)
Doan

Oppose

Awaiting Committee Assignment

Make Full Day Kindergarten Mandatory
Truett

Big Bold Future Report

Letter to Sponsor

Awaiting Committee Assignment

Supports for Pregnant Women and Children
Tate

Big Bold Future Report

Awaiting Committee Assignment

Dual Credit Extension
Tipton

Support

Big Bold Future Report

Letter to Sponsor

Awaiting House AR Hearing

CTE Funding
McCool
Civic Education
Duvall

Support

Letter to Sponsor

Delivered to Governor

Child Care Ready Community Act
Heavrin

Delivered to Governor

House Budget Proposal
Petrie

Budget Analysis

Delivered to Governor as amended by Free Conference Committee

State Budget Nears Completion

School Truancy
Bauman
K-Readiness
Jackson

Delivered to the Governor

Ban on Post-Secondary DEI Practices
Decker

Oppose

Letter to Sponsor

Awaiting Conference

SEEK Task Force
Truett

Awaiting House Vote

Changes to Local Boards of Education
Tichenor

Opposed

Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education

Postsecondary Performance Funding Enhancements
Givens

Support

Letter to Sponsor

Awaiting House Vote

The Horizon Act, Early Childhood
Carroll

Big Bold Future Report

Letter to Sponsor

Support

Awaiting Senate AR Hearing

AI Guidelines for Schools
Thomas

Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education

Ban on Post-Secondary DEI Practices
Wilson

Oppose

Letter to Sponsor

Awaiting Conference

Partisan, Elected Kentucky Board of Education (KBE)
Wilson

Letter to Sponsor

Oppose

Awaiting Hearing in House Education

Ban on K-12 DEI Practices
Meredith

Oppose

Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education

Coalition Coverage
A homeless individual under the age of 25 does not have to pay a fee to get a copy of his or her birth certificate.
Witten
School Meals Reimbursement for “Kentucky Proud” products
C. Aull
Establish Center for Student Resiliency and Wellbeing
Willner
School Meals Reimbursement for “Kentucky Proud” products
Armstrong
Following
Accountability Practices for English Learning (EL) Students
Jackson
Background Checks for Child Care Employees Turing 18 years old
Clines
Require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia. Require teacher candidate instruction on dyslexia.
Bojanowski
Public Comments at School Board Meetings
Calloway
Constitutional Amendment on School Choice
Calloway
College Free Speech Protections
Maddox
Provide Performance Reviews for College Professors, Removal Process
Tipton
Close Loopholes in Teacher Background Checks
Tipton
Full day Preschool
Raymond
KEES Scholarships for Home Schooled Students
Rawlings
Urge the USDOE to amend the federal accountability requirements to truly afford states the flexibility to implement innovative approaches to student assessment and school accountability
Bojanowski
Re-establish the Early Childhood Education Interim Taskforce
Heavrin
Increase KEES Scholarship Amounts
Armstrong
SBDM Minority Voices
Tichenor
This is a proposal by Sen. Westerfield to support maternal health and families that contains a wide-ranging set of issues from special health insurance enrollment periods for health insurance to support for the childcare assistance program.
Westerfield
Artificial Intelligence Technology in Education
Thomas
Additions to the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE)
Thomas