The Mathematics Achievement Fund provides two-year renewable grants to local school districts for training teachers in diagnostic assessment and intervention skills. To qualify, a district must employ standards-based and research-based math instructional practices, use intervention and support services to supplement regular classroom instruction, and provide intervention services to primary program and other students at risk of mathematics failure based on ongoing assessments of their needs.

The Instructional Resources/Textbook Fund provides support to local school districts to obtain instructional material for students in kindergarten through eighth grades.

Policy

The base budget in each fiscal year includes General Fund for the following programs:

• $1,900,000 for AdvanceKentucky
• $100,000 for the Hearing and Speech Center
• $100,000 for the Heuser Hearing and Language Academy
• $1,675,500 for the Jobs for America's Graduates Program
• $500,000 for the Kentucky Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs
• $5,019,000 for the Mathematics Achievement Fund
• $15,936,600 for the Read to Achieve Program
• $11,000,000 for the Read to Succeed Program
• $2,000,000 for Save the Children
• $1,200,000 for the Statewide Reading Research Center
• $700,000 for Teach for America
• $500,000 for the Visually Impaired Preschool Services Program
• $1,500,000 vendor-provided online computer science courses

The base budget includes General Fund of $15,000,000 in each fiscal year for the Center for School Safety.

The base budget includes General Fund of $18,000,000 in each fiscal year to assist local school districts in funding salaries for school resource officers.