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WHAT IS A SCHOOL REPORT CARD?
Kentucky law (KRS 158.6453) requires that each school district and public school produce and distribute school and district report cards. School report cards are to be sent by United States mail to all parents and guardians in a school unless a waiver is granted by the Kentucky Department of Education for a process that is equally effective in ensuring that parents and guardians receive the card. The Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education are charged with ensuring that the requirements of this law are fulfilled.
The purpose of the School Report Card is to keep parents and community members informed about what is going on in each Kentucky school. It is an opportunity for schools to highlight their strengths and explain what they are doing to improve on any weaknesses. This helps open the lines of communication between the school, the homes of its students, and its local community. This document has a significant and beneficial public impact.
The elements of the School Report Card are:
• A School Report Card: A document that is to be sent to the parents or guardians of every student in every school each year. School Report Cards are available on the KDE Web site.
• An Expanded School Report Card: Information – above and beyond that in the School Report Card – that each school must have on-hand in the principal's office for anyone who requests it.
• A District Report Card: A summary of each school's report card to be published in the county's largest circulation newspaper no later than the second Sunday in February, each year. District Report Cards can also be viewed on the KDE Web site.
• An Expanded District Report Card: Information-above and beyond that in the District Report Card-that the district must have on-hand in the central office for anyone who requests it.
The format for these publications was developed through an open process that involved 16 parent focus groups, the School Curriculum, Assessment and Accountability Council (SCAAC) and dozens of Kentucky educators. The Kentucky Board of Education has formalized an administrative regulation that governs the School Report Card.