In 2002, Kentucky passed Senate Bill 168 on achievement gaps. As
originally written, the law specified that: - The Department of
Education was report to each school on disaggregated results by
race, gender, disability, English proficiency, and participation
in the federal free and reduced price lunch program. - Each
school council was to agree with its superintendent and board on
two-year targets to eliminate those gaps. - Each local board
would decide if its schools met those targets two years later. -
If a school missed a target, the superintendent would have to
approve the school's plans for professional development and
extended school services. - If a school missed the same target
twice, the commissioner of education would have to approve the
entire school improvement plan. The idea was to be impatient
about solving the problem, with just one cycle of councils
having independent responsibility, one cycle of shared council
and central office responsibility, and then seriously shared
council, district, and