{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "Kentucky", "state_number": "17", "postal_code": "KY", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-09-28", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/ky/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23253510", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "Kentucky has run a state school for Deaf students in Danville since 1823, and the state Department of Education operates it as one of its own units. The school had 62 students on the state's 2024-25 report card and 74 on its December 2024 count, while the state counted 724 hearing-impaired students statewide that December, so most are taught in their local districts. The school's outreach arm advises 152 of the 171 districts at no cost, but only three districts name the school on their own websites. This file read the website of every district, six other state-run units and the nine regional special education cooperatives, 186 in all. Eighteen publish a program or a staff position for Deaf and hard of hearing students, thirty-five mention hearing only in a list or in passing, one hundred thirty-three publish nothing, and every site was read. A district that publishes nothing may still serve its Deaf students well; the finding is about what a family can find. Eight districts each have ten or more identified hearing-impaired students and publish nothing about them. Kentucky publishes how many hearing-impaired students each district has, hiding small numbers, but has not published where they are placed since December 2022. The funding formula gives a district extra money for each identified Deaf student, at the highest of its three weights. The school's budget is 12.8 million dollars for the year that began in July 2026. A federal tax credit for private school scholarships opened to Kentucky in July 2026, and nothing in it reports which students use it. In 2025 the state closed the classroom interpreter test as a route to a full interpreter license. No state document tells a family how to choose between the state school, a district program and a private one.", "frame": { "statement": "186 units: the 177 local units of the department's own district-level data plus the nine special education cooperatives. The 177 are 171 school districts (120 county and 51 independent districts, from the department's own count and its district directory), the Kentucky School for the Blind District (602) and the Kentucky School for the Deaf (603), which are their own districts in state data, Model Laboratory Schools at EKU (606), and three state-operated units carried in the state's district-level data without membership rows: Craft Academy (610), the Kentucky Tech System (777) and the Kentucky National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Academies (880). The roster was fixed from the KYRC25 School Report Card district and school list (re-fetched 24 September 2026) checked against the department's district directory as retrieved by the owner on 24 September 2026 (D-050): every one of the 177 matched a directory page; three directory entries not on the roster (Fort Campbell Dependent and Fort Knox Dependent, federal schools, and We Lead CS, a directory entry with no website whose page shows nothing) stay outside the frame with the note. The nine cooperatives (CKEC, GRREC, GLEC, KEDC, KVEC, NKCES, OVEC, SESC, WKEC) are rostered as their own agency type from the department's Technical Assistance Network page, as STD-002 v1.2 section 6 requires where a state runs regional units; the KYSTATS child count file carries the same nine as its SERTAC geographies. No unit is OUT OF FRAME, none is NOT AUDITED, and none is NOT OPERATING: the three no-membership state units were audited as units and their pages show each running the program it exists for, so the D-045 code was considered and not applied. Kentucky has no charter LEA class and no charter school; the 2017 authorization statutes stand (KRS 160.1590 to 160.1599) and the Kentucky Supreme Court struck the charter funding law on 19 February 2026.", "frame_count": 186, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "Federal dependent schools listed in the department's directory (Fort Campbell Dependent, Fort Knox Dependent)", "count": 2, "basis": "Department of Defense schools, not Kentucky local education agencies; listed in the state directory without a state district number on the KYRC25 roster" }, { "class": "Directory entry with no website and no readable page (We Lead CS, directory id 1001105, 225 Hebron Road, Shelbyville)", "count": 1, "basis": "Not on the KYRC25 roster; the owner looked at the directory page on 24 September 2026 and it shows nothing beyond the address; recorded, not audited" } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Kentucky runs separate schools in separate cities for the two populations, both operated by the same KDE division under the same statute (KRS 167.015). The boundary runs around the Kentucky School for the Blind as an institution (its own campus, city, membership and expenditure unit) and through the shared machinery: one operating division (OSEEL, Division of State Schools), one statute, joint capital maintenance and safety pools that also cover the FFA Leadership Training Center, and a joint child nutrition program. Separable: per-school expenditures (Volume I State Schools page, APA Figure 153), memberships, staffing. Not separable: the joint capital pools. KSB is documented only to the extent needed to justify its exclusion, and its district row (602) stays in the frame as a unit of the state's district-level data.", "readable_subset": 186, "weak_evidence_count": 15 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "federal nutrition boilerplate naming ASL is not hearing content", "website accessibility boilerplate is not hearing content", "an eligibility definition or Child Find category list without a service model codes MENTION", "a staffing, job or salary document naming a DHH position codes PROGRAM with a weak-evidence flag", "school nurse screening codes MENTION", "public budget or tax hearing notices and due-process hearing officer text are standing false positives for the term hearing", "ELL and world-language interpreters are not DHH staff", "every acronym hit is opened before it is counted", "a district page describing KSD Outreach or LDIP services codes MENTION with KSD in the mechanism column; a bare link codes NONE FOUND with KSD recorded", "PROGRAM on a district row requires the district's own staff or program; the weak flag qualifies PROGRAM only", "procedural safeguards text is a standing false positive", "D-037: a service named only as an item in a list is recorded with its evidence form; a category or eligibility list, a placement continuum, a regulatory definition, a generic related service item, a screening or nondiscrimination notice, or an undifferentiated reference to an outside body is MENTION at most; a named DHH staff position on the unit's own staff is PROGRAM on weak evidence; a described program, department page or site is PROGRAM", "D-037(3) and D-038: a cooperative that names a DHH service among those it provides is PROGRAM on weak evidence with the operator named where a member district runs it" ], "method_limitations": "Every unit was read twice on 24 September 2026: a first pass by a fetch fleet (twenty chunks, two agents at a time, WebFetch only, briefs read from disk, honest failure rows) and a closure pass in the owner's rendered Chrome with the Kentucky closure probe (home page, sitemap and linked department pages, a shell detector that renders client-side pages in a same-origin frame, 350 ms between reads, a 42 second budget per unit; sweep mode following every same-origin link for thin sites and for the nine cooperatives; Google Sites units read live from their own pages). Every code rests on the rendered read; the fetch row's code is kept in the closure rows file's code history. Container shell HTTP is prohibited by session policy and was not used. TLS certificate warnings were never bypassed: Edmonson County (151) ended attempt one NOT VERIFIABLE (a certificate hostname mismatch on the kyschools.us host; the directory's k12.ky.us address does not answer) and was read at attempt two on 28 September 2026 under D-040, by fetch at the host the listed host's own certificate names (boe.edmonson.kyschools.us), with the D-039 address test met; Mason County (391) and Menifee County (415), whose v1.0 hosts fail TLS, were read at the addresses the state directory lists. The department's own directory application (openhouse.education.ky.gov) serves an incomplete TLS certificate chain and was unreadable by the run's tools on both transports; the owner saved its 177 unit pages as PDF in Safari (no certificate prompt shown) and the run parsed them (D-050), so the directory route fields rest on a human retrieval whose manifest is filed. Route and click depth: the fetch pass recorded the visible navigation labels to the page it read and its depth, and those are carried where the closure code rests on the same page or the code is NONE FOUND; where the closure code rests on a page the probe reached by a sitemap or a linked-page link, the route field is empty and the depth is not measured, because the probe records the link under which a page was reached and not the menu path. Staff positions are counted from the pages the code rests on, not from a full directory read; large paginated staff directories were swept page by page only where the probe reached them (Muhlenberg's was), so staffing-based PROGRAM evidence may be undercounted in districts whose directories are client-side applications. The ASL course column was not measured in this run (course catalogs were not read) and carries the v1.0 finding with that caveat. The identified counts are the School Report Card's December 1, 2024 file, in which 51 district cells are suppressed; the KYSTATS file of the same date, which redacts values 1 to 9, prints a district Hearing Impairment count for only 9 of 175 district geographies and was used for the state, cooperative and state school series, not for district rows. The cooperative sweeps did not exhaust their link queues on GRREC (69 left), KEDC (24), NKCES (22), SESC (15) and WKEC (38); the unread pages are mostly news and event pages, and the staff pages of NKCES, SESC and WKEC were among them.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 18, "percent_of_frame": 9.7, "percent_of_readable": 9.7 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 35, "percent_of_frame": 18.8, "percent_of_readable": 18.8 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 133, "percent_of_frame": 71.5, "percent_of_readable": 71.5 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "County district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 17 }, { "agency_type": "County district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 24 }, { "agency_type": "County district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 79 }, { "agency_type": "Independent district", "code": "MENTION", "count": 7 }, { "agency_type": "Independent district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 44 }, { "agency_type": "Special education cooperative (SERTAC)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 3 }, { "agency_type": "Special education cooperative (SERTAC)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 6 }, { "agency_type": "State agency program (district code in state data)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State residential dual-credit academy (district in state data)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State school district", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State school district (blind counterpart)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "State-operated ATC system (district code in state data)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 1 }, { "agency_type": "University laboratory school district", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 1 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "KSD Outreach (the statewide resource center at KSD)", "provider_names_count": 152, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "COOP-GLEC Greater Louisville Education Cooperative (GLEC)" ] }, { "provider": "Language Deprivation Intervention Program (LDIP)", "provider_names_count": null, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "Kentucky School for the Deaf (the school, named on a unit's own pages)", "provider_names_count": 152, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 5, "affirmative_list": [ "051 Boyle County", "111 Casey County", "515 Rowan County", "COOP-CKEC Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative (CKEC)", "COOP-GLEC Greater Louisville Education Cooperative (GLEC)" ] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": true, "identified_population": { "value": 724, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "Hearing Impairment primary category, All Districts row of the School Report Card file; the KYSTATS December 1 snapshot of the same date gives 703" }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": 284, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "Recomputed from COVERAGE.identified_hi_count in units coded PROGRAM (visible counts; suppressed cells not counted); 39.2 percent of 724. Jefferson County's 88 are counted on the Heuser Hearing and Language Academy school page (school 465 of district 275 in the state's own list), kept at PROGRAM with the weak flag by the program lead's ruling of 24 September 2026; without that row the capacity is 196, 27.1 percent, so the measure moves by about twelve points on how that row is read" }, "note": "The state's suppression rule: an asterisk marks a small count (\"Data is suppressed to protect student privacy\"); a blank cell is zero or no row. Visible district counts sum to 650 across the 75 units that print a number, 51 further cells carry the mark, and the residual of 74 against the state total of 724 is consistent with suppression of small counts. Every unit reporting ten or more identified Hearing Impairment students while publishing nothing (NONE FOUND) is named on the Summary sheet." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Students with IEPs, statewide (School Report Card file)", "figure": { "value": 117820, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "KYRC25_OVW_Students_with_Disabilities_IEP.csv (December 1 child count basis), All Districts row" } }, { "indicator": "Students with IEPs, statewide (KYSTATS December 1 snapshot)", "figure": { "value": 116650, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 67, "note": "State row, characteristic All; the two state records of the same date differ by 1,170 and both are reported; the KYSTATS technical notes say its data \"may not be comparable to data published in other reports\"" } }, { "indicator": "Hearing Impairment primary category, statewide (School Report Card file)", "figure": { "value": 724, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "Same file, All Districts row, Hearing Impaired column; the identified population figure of this file (D-032 baseline)" } }, { "indicator": "Hearing Impairment primary category, statewide (KYSTATS December 1 snapshot)", "figure": { "value": 703, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 67, "note": "State row; series 698 (2018-19), 711, 714, 678, 674, 702, 703 (2024-25)" } }, { "indicator": "Deaf-Blindness primary category, statewide", "figure": { "value": 28, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "Same file, All Districts row, Deaf Blind column; KYSTATS gives the same 28 (12, 14, 10, NA, 12, 21, 28 for 2018-19 to 2024-25)" } }, { "indicator": "Hearing Impairment count by district", "figure": { "value": "Published: visible sum 650 across 75 units with a printed number; 51 suppressed cells (126 units carry a number or the mark); residual 74 consistent with suppression of small counts", "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "District-level rows; blank cells are zero or no row; the KYSTATS file prints a district Hearing Impairment count for only 9 of 175 district geographies under its rule that values 1 to 9 are redacted" } }, { "indicator": "KSD membership (School Report Card)", "figure": { "value": 62, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 26, "note": "District 603; 72 (2023-24), 71 (2022-23), 67 (2021-22), 72 (2020-21), 98 (2019-20)" } }, { "indicator": "KSD December 1 enrollment (KYSTATS)", "figure": { "value": 74, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 67, "note": "Geography Kentucky School for the Deaf, All Students Enrolled: 99 (2018-19), 86, 67, 65, 69, 76, 74; IEP count 99, 83, 75, 65, 67, 77, 72; the two years where the IEP count exceeds the enrolled figure (2020-21, 2023-24) are printed as the file prints them" } }, { "indicator": "KSD students with IEPs by primary category", "figure": { "value": "75 total; 49 Hearing Impairment; 6 Deaf-Blindness; remainder other categories", "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "District 603; the KYSTATS file redacts KSD's Hearing Impairment cell in every year" } }, { "indicator": "KSD population (APA instrument)", "figure": { "value": 77, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 23, "note": "86 (2023-24); 77 (2022-23); attendance 91.7 to 92.3 percent; APA Special Examination Figure 149, p. 281" } }, { "indicator": "KSD Outreach districts served", "figure": { "value": 152, "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 23, "note": "152 (2022-23); 138 (2021-22); 139 (2020-21); APA Figure 158, p. 288" } }, { "indicator": "KSB membership (School Report Card)", "figure": { "value": 64, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 26, "note": "District 602" } }, { "indicator": "NCDB national deafblind count, Kentucky", "figure": { "value": 192, "year": "2024", "source_n": 53, "note": "Number on the December 1 count; 198 served during the year; 16 of the 192 reported under the IDEA category Deaf-Blindness and 124 under Multiple Disabilities (report pages 7, 84 and 88)" } }, { "indicator": "Statewide public school membership", "figure": { "value": 630946, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 26, "note": "KYRC25_OVW_Student_Membership.csv, State row" } }, { "indicator": "SEEK base per pupil", "figure": { "value": 4586, "year": "FY 2025-26", "source_n": 36, "note": "Dollars; KDE FY2025-2026 SEEK Final Calculation" } }, { "indicator": "Placement criteria for deaf and hard of hearing students (FRM-005 section 4)", "figure": { "value": "Not published: no criteria or decision framework for placing a deaf or hard of hearing child at the state school, in a district program or in a private program is published by the department or the school", "year": "2026-09-24", "source_n": 11, "note": "Placement at KSD runs through the resident district's ARC (KSD How to Enroll page, source 11); the department's DHH resource page (source 19) and the KSD pages read carry no criteria; the finding stands from v1.0 and every state of the series" } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments by disability category (last published)", "figure": { "value": "Published for December 2022 only", "year": "December 2022", "source_n": 28, "note": "The December 2022 Child Count and Educational Environment tables (K-14 by disability and environment; HI K-14 cell sum 614) are the last published DHH placement distribution; the department's 618 page of 25 August 2026 lists December 2023 by age only" } }, { "indicator": "Latest published December child count", "figure": { "value": "December 1, 2024 (KYSTATS, 2024-25 rows); the department's own 618 page lists December 2023", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 67, "note": "No December 2025 count published by the department or KYSTATS on 24 September 2026; KYRC26 file returns 404 (source 27)" } }, { "indicator": "Constitutional Amendment 2 (public funds for non-public education)", "figure": { "value": "Rejected: Yes 707,819 (35.21%); No 1,302,466 (64.79%)", "year": "2024-11-04", "source_n": 40, "note": "Certified 9 December 2024" } }, { "indicator": "Publication against identified population", "figure": { "value": "284 of 724 identified HI students (39.2 percent, visible counts) are in units coded PROGRAM", "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 24, "note": "Computed in the build from ky_data.py and the SWD file; v1.0 held 223 (30.8 percent) on 12 PROGRAM units; the change is the closure's re-reading, not the population" } }, { "indicator": "Operator silence, both directions", "figure": { "value": "Direction one: KSD Outreach served 152 of 171 districts (2023-24) and publishes no served-district list; direction two: the count of units naming the school on their own pages is recomputed from the rows", "year": "2023-24; 2026-09-24", "source_n": 23, "note": "APA Figure 158; ky_data.py statewide_provider_named" } }, { "indicator": "Hearing aid insurance coverage", "figure": { "value": "Raised from $1,400 to $2,500 per hearing aid (private plans and state employee plan), effective 1 January 2027", "year": "2026", "source_n": 43, "note": "2026 HB 164, Acts ch. 26 (signed 3 April 2026)" } }, { "indicator": "Newborn screening and early intervention (CDC EHDI survey, Kentucky row)", "figure": { "value": "97.6 percent screened; 54 with permanent hearing loss; 0 percent with early intervention by 6 months; 8 enrolled (14.8 percent)", "year": "2022", "source_n": 63, "note": "State-submitted data as the CDC reports it; the page does not explain the zeros" } }, { "indicator": "Directory route flags (D-043), count of the 186 rows", "figure": { "value": "46 flagged: 17 listed address did not answer; 15 listed address redirects to a new domain; 14 address not taken from the state directory", "year": "2026-09-24", "source_n": 61, "note": "131 units read at the listed address; the 14 include 9 aliases that answer with the district's site, 2 department Google Sites read beside the listed district site, 1 listed .com site read beside the unit's own, and 2 directory errors (Allen County lists a job-application site; the Youth ChalleNGe Academies row lists the department's privacy page); the nine cooperative rows are not in the department's district directory" } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "SY 2018-19", "identified_hi": 698, "identified_db": 12, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2019-20", "identified_hi": 711, "identified_db": 14, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2020-21", "identified_hi": 714, "identified_db": 10, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2021-22", "identified_hi": 678, "identified_db": "NA", "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2022-23", "identified_hi": 674, "identified_db": 12, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2023-24", "identified_hi": 702, "identified_db": 21, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2024-25", "identified_hi": 703, "identified_db": 28, "source_n": 67 }, { "year": "SY 2024-25", "identified_hi": 724, "identified_db": 28, "source_n": 24 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "populated", "amount": 12829100, "fiscal_year": "FY 2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "2026-2028 Budget of the Commonwealth, Operating Budget Volume I, Department of Education, Learning and Results Services, State Schools, Expenditures by Unit, Kentucky School for the Deaf", "citation": "Volume I, PDF page 101 (printed page 90); source 62; earlier years from the same table and, for FY 2021 to FY 2023, the APA Special Examination Figures 152-153 (source 23)", "note": "KSD is a named expenditure unit inside KDE's State Schools appropriation unit; it has no freestanding appropriation act line of its own. State Schools combined (KSB plus KSD): 20,266,197 (FY 2024 actual); 20,976,261 (FY 2025 actual); 20,930,900 (FY 2026 revised); 22,446,900 (FY 2027 enacted); 24,605,900 (FY 2028 enacted); General Fund regular appropriation 18,983,600; 20,829,300; 20,919,900; 21,548,000; 22,069,800. KSB: 8,634,983; 9,055,170; 9,098,600; 9,617,800; 10,231,800. The v1.0 FY 2024 figure (11,926,200 revised, from the APA) is replaced by the FY 2024 actual of Volume I. Volume I narrative: \"The Kentucky School for the Deaf, located in Danville, Kentucky, provides educational services to deaf children who cannot be served by local school districts.\"", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2021", "amount": 10634551, "basis": "actual (APA Figure 153)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2022", "amount": 11259969, "basis": "actual (APA Figure 153)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2023", "amount": 11873567, "basis": "actual (APA Figure 153)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024", "amount": 11631213, "basis": "actual (Volume I)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025", "amount": 11921091, "basis": "actual (Volume I)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026", "amount": 11832300, "basis": "revised (Volume I)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2027", "amount": 12829100, "basis": "enacted (Volume I)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2028", "amount": 14374100, "basis": "enacted (Volume I)" } ] }, { "channel": "General formula funding (SEEK) reach to the state school", "status": "not applicable", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "KRS 157.360; KDE FY2025-2026 SEEK Final Calculation", "citation": "KRS 157.360(2): \"Each district shall receive an amount equal to the base funding level for each pupil in average daily attendance\" (source 32); base $4,586 per pupil FY 2025-26 (source 36)", "note": "KSD sits outside SEEK: SEEK is a district average-daily-attendance formula and the state schools are funded directly in KDE's budget; KSD and KSB appear in SEEK documents only as data rows, not as funded districts.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 4586, "basis": "SEEK base per pupil, districts only" } ] }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "Weighted-pupil add-on inside SEEK: the December 1 exceptional child count weighted 2.35, 1.17 or 0.24 times the base", "citation": "702 KAR 3:270 Section 1(4), verbatim: weights of \"2.35... for students with severe disabilities\", \"1.17... for students with moderate disabilities\", \".24... for students with communications disabilities\" times the per pupil base (source 31); KRS 157.360(1)(b) (\"Specific weights for each category of exceptionality shall be used\"); KRS 157.200 definitions (source 33)", "note": "Hearing impairment and deaf-blindness both sit in the 2.35 low-incidence tier per LRC Research Report 471 Table 1.1 (p. 9): low incidence = autism, deaf-blindness, emotional-behavioral disability, functional mental disability, hearing impairment, multiple disabilities, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment (source 35). The regulation itself enumerates no categories: the tier-to-category mapping was found in no regulation or KDE rule text, only in the LRC research report and KDE operational documents; recorded as a publication finding. No amount is published for the hearing impairment share of the add-on.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 2.35, "basis": "weight for the severe (low-incidence) tier, which holds hearing impairment" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 1.17, "basis": "weight for the moderate tier" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2025-26", "amount": 0.24, "basis": "weight for the communications tier" } ] }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "KRS chapter 157 captions swept; KRS 157.224 and 157.280 read", "citation": "KRS 157.224(5) (a \"special education trust fund\" that is a compliance-withholding device, not aid); KRS 157.280 (districts of residence share the costs of multi-district programs \"in proportion to the number of pupils or in accordance with contract agreement\"); source 34", "note": "None located: no excess-cost or catastrophic pool in chapter 157. Transportation for out-of-district special education placements is reimbursed \"from the transportation fund of the foundation program at the same rate per trip\" (KRS 157.280). What would close the gap: a KDE statement that no such pool exists, or the discovery of one in a budget document." }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "populated", "amount": 425840, "fiscal_year": "FY 2021-2024", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B funds received by KSD directly as a unit; Perkins CTE funds; COVID-era federal funds", "citation": "APA Special Examination Figures 154-155 (pp. 285-286), source 23", "note": "KSD IDEA-B 425,840 total FY 2021 to 2024 (KSB 170,346); KSD Perkins 140,595 over the examination period; KSD COVID-19 federal funds 10,252,400 (ESSER I 1,380,000; ESSER II 3,526,400; ARP 5,325,000; GEER 21,000). Kentucky's statewide IDEA Part B allocation is not stated on the KDE pages read; the department's Technical Assistance Network page states that OSEEL funds its technical assistance projects from the state-level portion of the Part B grant without an amount. Gap recorded.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2021-2024", "amount": 425840, "basis": "KSD IDEA Part B, four-year total (APA Figure 154)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2021-2024", "amount": 140595, "basis": "KSD Perkins (APA Figure 155)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2021-2024", "amount": 10252400, "basis": "KSD COVID-19 federal funds (APA Figure 155)" } ] }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "n/a", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "KRS 167.150; KRS 167.250; KRS 167.220; KSD How to Enroll page; APA staffing table", "citation": "KRS 167.150: \"no charge shall be made for the admission of pupils from this state\" (source 4); KRS 167.220 (source 7): \"The State Department of Education is hereby authorized to expend available funds for the purpose of sending children who are deaf-blind to any facility, school, or institution, within or without the Commonwealth\"", "note": "In-state placement at KSD is free to families and no inter-district tuition mechanism to KSD was located; admission runs through the resident district's ARC; residential and transport costs sit in the school's own budget (houseparent staffing; KRS 167.250 transport insurance for KDE-operated vehicles). KRS 167.220 was read on the LRC host on 24 September 2026, closing the v1.0 stale-web finding." }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "populated", "amount": 1700, "fiscal_year": "tax year 2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "2026 HB 1 (Acts ch. 4), electing Kentucky into the federal scholarship tax credit at 26 U.S.C. 25F; 30 KAR 1:060 (Scholarship Granting Organizations, July 2026); the Secretary of State's opt-in of 22 July 2026", "citation": "HB 1, verbatim: \"The General Assembly hereby elects that in each calendar year the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall: Participate in the qualified elementary and secondary education scholarship federal tax credit established under 26 U.S.C. sec. 25F\" (source 41); the Secretary of State \"formally opted Kentucky into the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act's scholarship tax credit by signing documentation with the Internal Revenue Service\" (source 82); 30 KAR 1:060 Sections 2 to 4 (source 83)", "note": "No state instrument exists: tax-credit scholarships struck (Commonwealth ex rel. Cameron v. Johnson, 15 December 2022); Amendment 2 rejected 4 November 2024 (35.21 to 64.79); charter school funding struck (Commonwealth v. Council for Better Education, 19 February 2026) with no charter school ever opened. The federal channel is open: the credit is dollar-for-dollar up to $1,700 per taxpayer for contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations; SGO declarations are due to the Secretary of State by 30 November before the first year of participation, with an annual audit; the regulation requires no reporting by disability category or by school, and no SGO list was published on 24 September 2026. Whether deaf students use the credit will not be knowable from public data as the instrument stands. IDEA entitlement consequences are addressed in no source read.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "tax year 2027", "amount": 1700, "basis": "federal credit ceiling per taxpayer per year (the SoS release)" } ] }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "populated", "amount": 5150000, "fiscal_year": "FY 2027-28", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Budget of the Commonwealth Volume II, capital projects, 2024-2026 (24RS HB 6) and 2026-2028, State Schools lines", "citation": "Volume II, 2024-2026 and 2026-2028, as delegated fetch with quotes on 23 August 2026 (source 37)", "note": "The maintenance and safety pools name KSD, KSB and the FFA Leadership Training Center jointly and cannot be separated by school; the McDaniel/Scoggin campus attribution is not stated in the extract read (verification target). The 2026-2028 lines were not re-read in Volume II on 24 September 2026; Volume I's State Schools page carries no capital lines.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-25", "amount": 8000000, "basis": "McDaniel/Scoggin Classroom Building Upgrades, bond funds (2024-2026)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-26", "amount": 1000000, "basis": "State Schools Exterior Building Maintenance" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-26", "amount": 1000000, "basis": "State Schools Safety and Security Pool" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-26", "amount": 500000, "basis": "Dormitory Cottage Renovation (KSB and KSD)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2024-26", "amount": 3100000, "basis": "Maintenance Pool (joint)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-28", "amount": 5150000, "basis": "State Schools Electrical Upgrades" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-28", "amount": 2066000, "basis": "State Schools Lighting Upgrades" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2026-27", "amount": 2000000, "basis": "Maintenance Pool (joint)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY 2027-28", "amount": 1100000, "basis": "Maintenance Pool (joint)" } ] }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "APA, Special Examination of KDE, 1 July 2025 (556 pp.), KSD/KSB section pp. 279-296, ordered by 2024 HB 825", "citation": "APA report, source 23", "note": "Load-bearing findings: \"more than 44% of KSD teachers and staff are dissatisfied with the support KBE provides to the school\"; observation 1.12 that KDE purchasing processes \"present challenges\" for KSD/KSB with recommendation 1.12.b that KDE \"explore ways to allow ATCs, KSD, and KSB to procure goods and services similar to how school districts do instead of how KDE does\"; advisory board survey (Figure 148); KSD Charitable Foundation (est. 1985) supplements instructional, outreach and technology spending. No later audit touching the school was found on 24 September 2026 (the Interim Joint Committee on Education's 2025-26 minutes carry no KSD item)." }, { "channel": "Adjacent insurance channel", "status": "populated", "amount": 2500, "fiscal_year": "2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "2026 HB 164, Acts ch. 26, signed 3 April 2026; House 93-0, Senate 38-0", "citation": "LegiScan bill record, source 43", "note": "Raises required hearing aid coverage from $1,400 to $2,500 per aid (private insurance and the state employee plan), effective 1 January 2027. Not an education appropriation; recorded because it is the session's one enacted DHH-specific instrument.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "2027", "amount": 2500, "basis": "required coverage per hearing aid from 1 January 2027" }, { "fiscal_year": "2026", "amount": 1400, "basis": "required coverage per hearing aid before the change" } ] } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "General licensure (KRS 309.301; no educational-settings exemption). Full licensure, 201 KAR 39:030 as in force from 5 February 2025: RID certification (not NAD III), TECUnit, BEI Advanced within three years, or an equivalent national certification; no EIPA route for a new full license; EIPA 4.0 or 3.5 holders licensed on or before 1 January 2025 stay licensed while they renew. Temporary license, 201 KAR 39:070: CGKE, NIC or the EIPA Skills and Knowledge Assessment within five years for K-12, under a plan of supervision, for up to five consecutive years", "year": "2026", "source_n": 47, "note": "Also source 86 (39:070) and source 46 (KRS 309.301). The v1.0 statement that EIPA 4.0 remained a live route is dissolved on the rule as in force." } }, { "item": "Interpreter training programs in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Eastern Kentucky University, Bachelor of Science in ASL & English Interpretation, CCIE accredited (its own page: \"The only CCIE accredited interpreter training program in Kentucky, and one of only 15 nationwide\"); named by the department's Technical Assistance Network page as the American Sign Language Interpreter Education program", "year": "2026", "source_n": 80, "note": "A second institution (v1.0's belief) was not established from any page read; the interpreter board's regulations name no program." } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing credential", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Certification for Teaching Exceptional Children, Hearing Impaired, Grades Primary through 12, and Hearing Impaired with Sign Proficiency, Grades Primary through 12 (16 KAR 2:010 Section 4(1)(g)); assignment rule at 16 KAR 4:020 Section 1(5)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 77, "note": "Also source 78. The certificate is titled Hearing Impaired, not teacher of the deaf; requirements are the preparation program and the certification assessments 16 KAR 6:010 names." } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf preparation programs in the state", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Eastern Kentucky University (19 approved program rows: Hearing Impaired and Hearing Impaired with Signed Proficiency at baccalaureate, master's, Rank I and certification-only levels; traditional, Option 6 and proficiency evaluation routes) and iteach (2 rows, certification only, Option 7 alternative route)", "year": "2026-09-24", "source_n": 79, "note": "KECS public Approved Program Search, program name Hearing; program name Deaf returns no rows." } }, { "item": "Teacher of the deaf supply as the state publishes it", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 81, "note": "The School Report Card staffing files (Teacher Certification Data; Educator Qualifications; FTE; experience; turnover) carry no certification area or assignment category, so no count of teachers holding or assigned under the Hearing Impaired certificate is published; a count of active certificates is a records request row to the EPSB." } }, { "item": "Shortage designation (federal teacher shortage area list; state list)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Special Education (undifferentiated, Pre-K to 12) designated for eight of the nine cooperative regions in 2026-27 (NKCES, OVEC, SESC, GLEC, GRREC, KEDC, CKEC, WKEC) and all nine in 2025-26; no Hearing Impaired or Deaf discipline listed", "year": "2026-27", "source_n": 88, "note": "U.S. Department of Education TSA report generated 24 September 2026; no separate state list was found." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional standard for DHH settings", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026", "source_n": 78, "note": "16 KAR chapter 4 and the department's DHH resource pages read carry no paraprofessional standard specific to deaf or hard of hearing settings; the general paraeducator requirements were not the object of this run." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026", "source_n": 71, "note": "No intervener credential or training route in statute or rule was found; the Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project (University of Kentucky) is the department's named technical assistance provider for dual sensory loss, birth to 22, and provides training to teams (sources 52 and 71)." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologist standard", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "2026", "source_n": 78, "note": "No educational audiologist certificate or standard in 16 KAR chapters 2 and 4 as read; audiologists are licensed under KRS chapter 334A (not read this run). The 618 personnel table reports 5 audiologist FTE for 2023-24." } }, { "item": "Special education teachers statewide (state staffing file)", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": null, "year": "SY 2024-25", "source_n": 81, "note": "The report card staffing files count teachers, not special education teachers as a category (Teacher Count, Emergency Provisional Teacher Count, National Board Certified Count by school and district)." } }, { "item": "Special education teachers statewide (IDEA 618 Part B personnel table)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": 8096, "year": "SY 2023-24", "source_n": 87, "note": "Total Special Education Teachers FTE: 7,925.05 fully certified and 170.95 not fully certified (early childhood 942.84; school age 7,153.16)." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessionals (IDEA 618 personnel table)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": 6698.07, "year": "SY 2023-24", "source_n": 87, "note": "Total Special Education Paraprofessionals FTE: 6,679.07 qualified and 19 not qualified." } }, { "item": "Interpreters (IDEA 618 personnel table)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": 83.25, "year": "SY 2023-24", "source_n": 87, "note": "Interpreters FTE: 75.75 fully certified and 7.5 not fully certified." } }, { "item": "Audiologists (IDEA 618 personnel table)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": 5, "year": "SY 2023-24", "source_n": 87, "note": "Audiologists FTE: 4 fully certified and 1 not fully certified." } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "KY-001", "entity_name": "Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD)", "entity_type": "State school", "operating_authority": "Kentucky Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Early Learning (OSEEL), Division of State Schools; managed and controlled by the Kentucky Board of Education under KRS 167.015", "city": "Danville", "county": "Boyle", "educational_setting": "Separate public day and residential school; weekly residential (students on campus Sunday evening to Friday afternoon); about 70 percent of students live on campus per the school's own text" }, { "id": "KY-002", "entity_name": "KSD Outreach", "entity_type": "Statewide outreach and technical assistance unit (arm of KSD)", "operating_authority": "KSD / KDE; statutory basis KRS 167.015(2) (Statewide Educational Resource Center on Deafness)", "city": "Danville", "county": "Boyle", "educational_setting": "Consultation and technical assistance into districts; family supports (Family Learning Vacation, held 6 June 2026 at KSD per the GLEC home page; online sign language classes; lending library); services requested by Google Form" }, { "id": "KY-003", "entity_name": "Language Deprivation Intervention Program (LDIP)", "entity_type": "Statewide project (within KSD Outreach)", "operating_authority": "KSD Outreach / KDE", "city": "Danville", "county": "Boyle", "educational_setting": "Technical assistance and consultation on language deprivation; \"early access to sign language, spoken language with supports, or bilingual approaches\"" }, { "id": "KY-004", "entity_name": "KDE Office of Special Education and Early Learning (OSEEL), Division of State Schools", "entity_type": "Operating division", "operating_authority": "Kentucky Department of Education", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Administers KSD and KSB as line units of the state education agency" }, { "id": "KY-005", "entity_name": "Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board", "entity_type": "State coordinating body (advisory)", "operating_authority": "Appointed by the Kentucky Board of Education", "city": "Danville", "county": "Boyle", "educational_setting": "Advisory only: \"The board shall act in an advisory capacity to assist the school superintendent in conducting the activities of the school\" (KRS 167.037); KSD's own site: recommendations \"in a non-decision making capacity\"" }, { "id": "KY-006", "entity_name": "Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB)", "entity_type": "Marked for exclusion (blind counterpart institution)", "operating_authority": "Same as KSD: KDE OSEEL Division of State Schools; Kentucky Board of Education management and control under the same statute (KRS 167.015)", "city": "Louisville", "county": "Jefferson", "educational_setting": "Separate day and residential school; outreach department (KIMRC materials center, regional consultants, Short Course Program up to 12 weeks)" }, { "id": "KY-007", "entity_name": "Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH)", "entity_type": "State coordinating body", "operating_authority": "Education and Labor Cabinet (the agency's own banner: \"An Agency of the Education and Labor Cabinet\")", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Advisory to state government plus direct services: interpreter referral, information and referral, advocacy, Telecommunications Access Program equipment distribution, DeaFestival" }, { "id": "KY-008", "entity_name": "Kentucky Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", "entity_type": "Standards or licensing body", "operating_authority": "Licensure board (Department of Professional Licensing)", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Licenses sign language interpreters; no educational-settings exemption in the statute, so the license applies in schools" }, { "id": "KY-009", "entity_name": "First Steps / Kentucky Early Intervention System (KEIS)", "entity_type": "Early intervention program (IDEA Part C)", "operating_authority": "Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health, Early Childhood Development Branch", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Statewide early intervention service system (direct service)" }, { "id": "KY-010", "entity_name": "Kentucky EHDI / Newborn Hearing Screening Program", "entity_type": "Newborn hearing screening system", "operating_authority": "Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs (OCSHCN)", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Universal newborn hearing screening; 1-3-6 timeline stated on the program page (screen by 1 month, confirm by 3 months, \"Confirmed permanent hearing loss cases enrolled in early intervention by 6 months of age\")" }, { "id": "KY-011", "entity_name": "Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project", "entity_type": "Deafblind project", "operating_authority": "University of Kentucky, College of Education (federal OSEP deafblind technical assistance grant; the department's Technical Assistance Network page names it among the projects OSEEL funds from its IDEA set-aside)", "city": "Lexington", "county": "Fayette", "educational_setting": "Technical assistance and training to teams; the department's page: \"a technical assistance project providing services to individuals with dual sensory (vision and hearing) impairments or losses. Services are provided to individuals from birth to 22 as a statewide service delivery system.\"; no charge" }, { "id": "KY-012", "entity_name": "Heuser Hearing & Language Academy (HHLA)", "entity_type": "Private school or program (listening and spoken language)", "operating_authority": "Heuser Hearing Institute (private nonprofit); carried by the state as school 465 of Jefferson County Public Schools (KYRC25 district and school list, level A3 Preschool, principal Christina Delk, 111 East Kentucky Street) with a school page on the JCPS domain; NCES public-school listing 210299001941", "city": "Louisville", "county": "Jefferson", "educational_setting": "The institute's own page: \"HHLA is the only educational institution in the Greater Louisville and Southern Indiana region that provides an extensive, specialized curriculum and early childhood education to children who are DHH or have speech, language and communication disorders.\"; the JCPS-hosted school page publishes no descriptive text (name, address, telephone)" }, { "id": "KY-013", "entity_name": "Fayette County Public Schools DHH continuum", "entity_type": "Local education agency program", "operating_authority": "Fayette County Public Schools (Lexington)", "city": "Lexington", "county": "Fayette", "educational_setting": "Published two-track continuum, verbatim: \"A continuum of services is available to all eligible students with a hearing loss\": itinerant services by \"teachers of the deaf-hard of hearing (DHH) and educational audiologists\" in neighborhood schools, and site-based DHH programs in three modalities (auditory-oral; cued language; total communication including \"American Sign Language (ASL), picture systems, sign-supported speech, fingerspelling, gestures, communication devices, and amplification technology\") with \"interpreting and transliteration services on a regular, ongoing basis\" and \"DHH adult communication models\"" }, { "id": "KY-014", "entity_name": "Special education cooperatives (CKEC, GRREC, GLEC, KEDC, KVEC, NKCES, OVEC, SESC, WKEC)", "entity_type": "Regional or cooperative program (class row; each cooperative is also a District Coverage row)", "operating_authority": "Member-district cooperatives; the department's Technical Assistance Network page (18 August 2026) links the nine as Special Education Regional Technical Assistance Centers (SERTACs)", "city": "Nine seats, Lexington to Murray (each on its own row of the coverage sheet)", "county": "various", "educational_setting": "General special education support networks (regional technical assistance, cadres, professional learning, grant projects)" }, { "id": "KY-015", "entity_name": "Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB), Hearing Impaired certificate", "entity_type": "Standards or licensing body", "operating_authority": "Education Professional Standards Board (within the Kentucky Department of Education since 2018)", "city": "Frankfort", "county": "Franklin", "educational_setting": "Issues the teaching certificate for exceptional children, Hearing Impaired and Hearing Impaired with Sign Proficiency, grades primary through 12" } ], "disclosure": { "relationships": [ { "body": "Kentucky Department of Education", "relationship": "prospect contacted", "since": "2026-09-14" } ], "statement": "In reply to the Index's outreach, the Commissioner's office, for the Kentucky Board of Education and the Department of Education, invited it to share comparative information (the reply of 18 September 2026); that reply is the ground on which this file was rebuilt ahead of the sweep (LOG-001 D-049). First contact from the program lead's mailbox was Monday 14 September 2026 at 6:58 PM Central (the message to the Office of Special Education and Early Learning's associate commissioner; a message six seconds earlier to another department address bounced), followed the same evening by messages to the Legislative Research Commission, the Director of State Schools, the Kentucky Board of Education and the Commissioner of Education, and replies from the LRC on 15 September and from the Commissioner's office on 18 September 2026; the log is filed as 02_Drafts/17_Kentucky_disclosure_contacts_2026-09-24.md. No client, licensee, State Partner or funder relationship exists with any body named in this file. Declared by the program lead under GOV-004 Rule 3; the program lead confirms this statement at release.", "compiled": "2026-10-29" }, "notice": { "applies": true, "recipients": [ { "body": "Kentucky Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Early Learning", "route_used": "the Associate Commissioner's published address (OSEEL; gretta.hylton@education.ky.gov), confirmed by the person who sent it" }, { "body": "Kentucky School for the Deaf (with its Advisory Board, which has no address of its own)", "route_used": "the principal's published address on ksd.kyschools.us (justin.padgett@ksd.kyschools.us), confirmed by the person who sent it" }, { "body": "KSD Outreach (the statewide resource center) and the Language Deprivation Intervention Program", "route_used": "KSD Outreach publishes only request forms and no mailbox; sent to the principal of its parent school, the Kentucky School for the Deaf (justin.padgett@ksd.kyschools.us)" }, { "body": "Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project (University of Kentucky)", "route_used": "published contact on education.uky.edu/kydbp" }, { "body": "Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", "route_used": "published general contact on kcdhh.ky.gov" } ], "sent": "2026-10-09", "window_closed": "2026-10-26", "responses": [], "reason": "Notice under STD-005 as D-044 scopes it for a v2.0 rebuild: the five state-level bodies with policy responsibility for what the file finds, the Department's Office of Special Education and Early Learning, the Kentucky School for the Deaf with its Advisory Board, KSD Outreach and the Language Deprivation Intervention Program, the Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project and the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The districts the narrative discusses by name are served by the standing correction route (D-044's departure from STD-005 section 2, stated in the trail). Sent by a person from the contact of record on 9 October 2026 (Eastern); the window closed 26 October 2026 with no response and no route failure." }, "contact_of_record": { "mailbox": "notice@ndedi.org", "postal": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330" }, "changelog": [ { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-08-23", "change": "First release: narrative profile, workbook (seven sheets including Fiscal), verification trail, prompt as issued, evidence source record, URL manifest (245 rows), evidence captures, and verification scripts with the release reconciliation output (118 checks, all pass). Frame of 177 units coded 12 PROGRAM (9 weak), 31 MENTION, 131 NONE FOUND, 3 NOT VERIFIABLE (all TLS), zero NOT AUDITED. Headline findings: the nation's first publicly funded deaf school (1823) is run as a line unit of KDE with the Commissioner serving as its superintendent per KDE's own publication, an advisory-only board, and five governance bills dead in two sessions (2026 HB 528, creating a KSD Board, died in committee) while the state auditor found 44 per cent of KSD staff dissatisfied with KBE support; operator silence at its series extreme (KSD Outreach's auditor-verified reach of 152 of 171 districts against 3 districts naming KSD); the market layer triple-closed by constitution, voters, and court (charter funding struck 19 February 2026) then reopened through the federal ECCA (2026 HB 1, veto overridden, Secretary of State administering); hearing impairment carries the SEEK 2.35 low-incidence weight but the regulation enumerates no categories (mapping only in LRC RR471); KSD membership fell 98 to 62 across six years; publication against identified population is 30.8 per cent, the inverse of Florida's 92 per cent, with Boone County's 20 identified HI students behind a district publishing nothing.", "cause": "first release" }, { "version": "2.0", "date": "2026-09-28", "change": "Re-audit at SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025) (on the December 1, 2024 count; state fiscal year 2025 with the enacted 2026-2028 biennium as the series) under the third-generation prompt. The frame moved from 177 to 186 units: the 171 districts, the six other state-run units, and the nine special education cooperatives rostered as their own agency type. Every unit read twice on 24 September 2026, by a fetch fleet and in the rendered browser with the Kentucky closure probe, and the department's directory pages retrieved by a person under D-050 when its application's certificate chain could not be read by the run's tools; coded 18 PROGRAM (15 on the weak-evidence flag), 35 MENTION, 133 NONE FOUND, zero NOT VERIFIABLE and zero NOT AUDITED after Edmonson County's second attempt of 28 September 2026 (read at the host its listed address's certificate names). 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