KRS § 158.1413 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 158 / Section 158.1413
158.1413 Essential workplace ethics instruction program -- Required characteristics -- Required biennial collaboration -- Symbol of attainment of essential workplace ethics indicators -- Biennial reporting on program
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158.1413 Essential workplace ethics instruction program -- Required

characteristics -- Required biennial collaboration -- Symbol of attainment of

essential workplace ethics indicators -- Biennial reporting on program.

(1) Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school district shall implement

essential workplace ethics programs that promote characteristics that are critical to

success in the workplace. Each student in elementary, middle, and high school shall

receive essential workplace ethics instruction that shall include but not be limited

to:

(a) Adaptability, including an openness to learning and problem solving, an

ability to embrace new ways of doing things, and a capability for critical

thinking;

(b) Diligence, including seeing a task through to completion;

(c) Initiative, including taking appropriate action when needed without waiting

for direct instruction;

(d) Knowledge, including exhibiting an understanding of work-related

information, the ability to apply that understanding to a job, and effectively

explain the concepts to colleagues in reading, writing, mathematics, science,

and technology as required by the job;

(e) Reliability, including showing up on time, wearing appropriate attire, self-

control, motivation, and ethical behavior;

(f) Remaining drug-free; and

(g) Working well with others, including effective communication skills, respect

for different points of view and diversity of coworkers, the ability to cooperate

and collaborate, enthusiasm, and the ability to provide appropriate leadership

to or support for colleagues.

(2) (a) A school district shall use the essential workplace ethics characteristics listed

in subsection (1) of this section when creating a program or when choosing an

existing program.

(b) Each school district's local workforce investment board, in conjunction with

local economic development organizations from its state regional sector, and

other economic, workforce, or industry organizations the workforce

investment board deems necessary, shall recommend to the school district best

practices which may be used by schools to implement an essential workplace

ethics program.

(3) By January 1, 2019, and every two (2) years thereafter, each local school board shall

collaborate with the local workforce investment board, in conjunction with local

economic development organizations from its state regional sector, and other

economic, workforce, or industry organizations the workforce investment board

deems necessary, to establish essential workplace ethics indicators for middle and

high school students that are aligned with the essential workplace ethics

characteristics listed in subsection (1) of this section.

(4) Each local school board shall design and adopt a diploma seal, certificate, card, or

other identifiable symbol to award students deemed as having minimally

demonstrated attainment of the local board's essential workplace ethics indicators.

(5) By September 1, 2019, and every two (2) years thereafter, the superintendent of

each school district shall provide to the commissioner of education and the

Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board a report, in a format specified by the

commissioner, describing the school district's essential workplace ethics programs

and how they are being implemented at each school. A summary report compiled by

the commissioner that includes information from all local school district reports

shall be provided to the Kentucky Board of Education, the Interim Joint Committee

on Education, the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board and each Kentucky

superintendent and principal in order to foster program improvement and the

sharing of best practices.