The Division of Innovation promotes personalized learning for each student using new approaches to learning in hopes that these new approaches can be scaled in the future. The division carries out KDE's role in programs such as Community Education & Service, Education of State Agency Children and the Family Resource & Youth Services Centers (FRYSC).

Policy

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

• $48,660,500 for the Family Resource and Youth Services Centers Program
• $1,850,000 for the Community Education Program
• $12,500,000 for the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children

Included in the base budget is $7,412,500 in each fiscal year to fund school-based mental health services provider full-time equivalent positions on a reimbursement basis.

In accordance with all appropriation bills since the Kentucky Education Reform Act was passed in 1990, the General Fund amounts for the FRYSC program are transferred to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Family Resource Centers and Volunteer Services, to be administered.

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