(1) (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the integration of the arts and foreign languages into the school curriculum benefits students by increasing their motivation to learn; improves attendance; fosters multicultural understanding; and develops neurological cognitive potential through higher- order thinking skills, creativity, and problem solving. Further, the General Assembly finds and declares that arts and foreign language education can renew and invigorate faculty and can foster greater parent and community participation and support.
(b) The General Assembly notes that it created a system of public education that allows and assists all students to acquire certain capacities provided under KRS § 158.645, including communication skills necessary to function in a complex and changing civilization and sufficient grounding in the arts to enable each student to appreciate his or her cultural and historical heritage.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 158.7991

  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(c) The General Assembly further notes that its goals for public schools under KRS § 158.6451 include: to develop students’ abilities to use basic communication and mathematics skills for purposes and situations they will encounter throughout their lives; to apply core concepts and principles from mathematics, the sciences, the arts, the humanities, and social studies; and to connect and integrate experiences and new knowledge from all subject matter fields with what they have previously learned and build on past learning experiences to acquire new information through various sources.
(2) It is the intent of the General Assembly in enacting KRS § 158.7992 to address the findings and declarations set out in subsection (1) of this section.
Effective: June 24, 2003
History: Created 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 35, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003.