Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 701 - EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CABINET - BOARD OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Chapter 8 - Charter Schools › Section 701 KAR 8:040 - Conversion charter school petition, conversion, and operation

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				160.1590,
				160.1591,
				160.1592,
				160.1593,
				160.1594,
				160.1595,
				160.1596,
				160.1597,
				160.1598,
				160.1599,
				161.011,
				161.141,
				161.800
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				160.1599 requires the Kentucky Board of
				Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to govern the processes
				and procedures for the petition, the conversion, and the operation of a
				conversion public charter school. This administrative regulation establishes
				requirements for conversion public charter schools.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Adult student" means a student who is
			 eighteen (18) years or older who is still eligible for enrollment and
			 attendance at a school program pursuant to
			 KRS
			 158.030 and
			 158.100.
(2) "Applicant" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(2).
(3) "Charter application" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(3).
(4) "Charter contract" or "contract" is
			 defined by KRS
			 160.1590(4).
(5) "Charter school" means a public charter
			 school.
(6) "Charter school board
			 of directors" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(5).
(7) "Conversion public charter school" or
			 "conversion charter school" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(6).
(8) "Days" means calendar days calculated
			 pursuant to KRS
			 446.030.
(9) "Emancipated youth" means a student under
			 the age of eighteen (18) who is or has been married or has by court order or
			 otherwise been freed from the care, custody, and control of the student's
			 parents.
(10) "Enrollment" means
			 the process for the charter school to register a student for attendance at the
			 charter school.
(11) "Grade" or
			 "grade level" means a single elementary, middle, or high school grade of
			 school.
(12) "Local board of
			 education" means local school board as defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(9).
(13) "Local school district" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(10).
(14) "Lottery" means the transparent, open,
			 equitable, and impartial process that is competently conducted with
			 randomization in accordance with the targeted student population and service
			 community as established in
			 KRS
			 160.1593(3) for the charter
			 school to choose students for enrollment and attendance at the charter school
			 if the student applications received by the charter school exceed the charter
			 school's capacity.
(15) "Notice"
			 means written notice.
(16) "Notify"
			 means provide written notice.
(17)
			 "Parent" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(11).
(18) "Person with custody or charge" means
			 any adult, pursuant to
			 KRS
			 159.010, who falls within the definition for
			 "interested person or entity" as defined by
			 KRS
			 387.010(2) for an interested
			 person or entity and with whom the student resides.
(19) "Petitioner" means the persons or
			 organizations initiating and circulating a petition to convert an existing
			 public school to a charter school.
(20) "Public charter school" is defined by
			 KRS
			 160.1590(14).
(21) "School level", "level", or "educational
			 level" means the configuration of grade levels that form elementary, middle,
			 and high schools.
(22) "Student" is
			 defined by KRS
			 160.1590(18) and includes
			 any person who is entitled to enrollment and attendance at a school program as
			 provided in KRS
			 158.030 and
			 158.100.
(23) "Student application" means an
			 application submitted to a charter school for student enrollment in the charter
			 school.
(24) "Superintendent" means
			 the local school district employee tasked with the duties established in
			 KRS
			 160.370.
(25) "Year", "academic year", or "school
			 year" means school year as defined by
			 KRS
			 158.050.