The Commonwealth School Improvement Fund (CSIF), a product of Kentucky's General Assembly, KRS 158.805, was created to assist local schools in pursuing new and innovative strategies to meet the educational needs of the school's students and raise the school's performance level. Eligible schools are provided grants for the following purposes:
a) To support teachers and administrators in the development of sound and innovative approaches to improve instruction or management;
b) To assist in replicating successful programs developed in other districts including those calculated to reduce achievement gaps as defined in KRS 158.649;
c) To encourage cooperative intructional or management approaches to specific school educational problems; and
d) To encourage teachers and administrators to conduct experimental programs to test concepts and applications being advanced as solutions to specific educational problems.