School Improvement

School Improvement

Published: 8/10/2026 11:29 AM

School improvement enhances educational opportunities and outcomes for Kentucky's students. This website provides navigation to various pages and programs that provide resources on topics pertaining to continuous improvement.​

Alternative Education Programs (AEP)

​​​​​​This website will provide resources ​to alternative education programs (AEP) to ensure continuous improvement in instruction, practices and curriculum to help all students to be college and career ready.

Best Practices and Sustainability

This website promotes practices that motivate, engage and provide measurable results in Kentucky's districts and schools. This site supports teachers, administrators, district personnel and any other education advocates seeking strategies that have been proven successful in a variety of settings.​

Chronic Absenteeism

This website provides a variety of supports to schools and districts to identify students are or who may become chronically absent. The website also provides the Chronic Absenteeism Toolkit as a resource.

Comprehensive Improvement Planning

This website provides an overview of comprehensive improvement planning, which is a collaborative process that brings together educators, families, community partners and other stakeholders to identify and address the needs of the school and district to improve outcomes for students. This page provides resources to support Kentucky's schools and districts in engaging stakeholders, analyzing data, establishing priorities and includes information on the timeline for completing plans in the Cognia Improvement Platform (CIP). 

​Comprehensive Support and Improvement/Educational Recovery

This website provides information about schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) and includes several resources and materials to support identified schools. 

​Continuous Improvement

This website provides information, resources and tools designed to assist schools and districts in their efforts to reduce the number of students scoring below proficiency and improve overall student achievement.​

​Digital Learning

This website provides best practices and resources for digital instruction and leading online and virtual coursework.​

Evidence-based Practices

This website provides resources to ensure that school improvement efforts are rooted in evidence-based activities, strategies or interventions.​

Innovation

This website provides Kentucky schools and districts resources to design learner-centered systems that prepare every student for success. Additional websites provide information regarding Nontraditional Instruction, Portrait of a Learner and Innovative Learning Network programs.

​​Management Improvement Program

This website outlines the program for management improvement services for districts that demonstrate a critical lack of efficiency or effectiveness in governance or administration that state-mandated corrective action or state control of the district is required.​​

No Pass/No Drive Law

This website provides information and resources surrounding the No Pass/No Drive Law, requiring the use of academic and attendance data from the preceding semester of the school year to determine whether students are compliant with the law when applying for a Learners Instruction Permit for the first time.​

Persistence to Graduation

This website provides​ a variety of supports to schools and districts to identify students who may be off-track for postsecondary readiness​, promotion, and/or on-time graduation and provide interventions to support students until they earn a diploma.

Safe Schools

This website provides resources for safe school initiatives, including but not limited to, bullying, missing children, suicide prevention, human trafficking, student behavior, social, emotional and behavioral health, trauma-informed practice and youth substance abuse resources.​

​Spotlight Schools

This website highlights schools recognized for their exceptional academic performance, creative practices and commitment to student success.​​ These schools have demonstrated outstanding leadership, effective teaching strategies and dedication to continuous improvement.​

Stronger Connections Grant​​​​

This website provides information on the Stronger Connections Grant (SCG) Program which is intended to support evidence-based school safety and climate plans, along with other evidence-based strategies for creating safe, healthy, and supportive schools.​

​Targeted Support and Improvement

This website includes information about targeted support and improvement (TSI) schools and includes several resources and materials to support identified schools.

Title IV, Part A - Support and Academic Enrichment​

This website provides resources and information for districts who receive Title IV, Part A funding.


​Kelly Foster
Office of Continuous Improvement and Support
300 Sower Blvd., 5th Floor
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 564-5130 Ext. 4001
Fax (502) 564-8149