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HB 253

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AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
About This Bill
Latest Action · Apr 10, 2026
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74)
Session
2026RS
Introduced
Jan 8, 2026
Primary Sponsor
J. Tipton· primary

Summary

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum and interventions that do not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum or program that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2027-2028 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability; amend KRS 164.306 to specify that educator preparation programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system; amend KRS 161.028 to require the board to include in the standards set for teacher preparation programs that the programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system.

Subjects

Administrative Regulations And ProceedingsBoards And CommissionsEducation, Elementary And SecondaryEducation, HigherState AgenciesTeachersUniversities And Colleges

Co-sponsors (5)

T. Bojanowski · primary
B. Chester-Burton · primary
D. Grossberg · primary
K. Jackson · primary
P. Stevenson · primary

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