AN ACT relating to public schools.

Amend KRS 160.346 to include identification as a state intervention school when a school enters comprehensive support and improvement status and does not make annual improvement for two years or does not exit the status after three years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "state intervention school"; require the identification of state intervention schools with the 2027-2028 school year; establish the procedures for identification; require the commissioner of education to take management of the state intervention school and develop an intervention plan to the Kentucky Board of Education for approval; establish the authorities of the commissioner of education over the state intervention school; establish the criteria for a school to exit status as an state intervention school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary forms and procedures to process waiver requests; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.108 and 160.107; provide that the Act may be cited as the School Improvement and Innovation Act.