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Kentucky Postsecondary Textbook Accessibility Act: publisher duty to provide instructional material in electronic format for postsecondary students with disabilitiessince 3 lines

KRS 164.477 · Read the law's page

  • If you are a publisher of instructional material used by students at a public or independent postsecondary education institution in Kentucky, provide to the institution or to the State Repository for Alternative Format Instructional Materials, at no cost, printed instructional material in an electronic format and nonprinted instructional material in an electronic format when the technology is available to maintain the material's structural integrity, once a written request meets the requirements of subsections (6) and (7) (KRS 164.477(3)).
  • Make the electronic version maintain the structural integrity of the original, be compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, include necessary corrections and revisions, and be in a format agreed with the requester; if good-faith efforts fail to produce an agreement, provide it in XML with an appropriate document-type definition and preserve as much of the original structural integrity as possible (KRS 164.477(4)).
  • Send the electronic version within fifteen working days of receiving an appropriately completed request, or within that period certify to the requester the expected date for delivery if the timetable presents an undue burden (KRS 164.477(5)).
Kentucky preferential procurement status and electronic file requirement for publishers of K-12 textbooks and instructional materials in alternative formats for students with disabilitiessince 4 lines

KRS 156.027 · Read the law's page

  • If you publish a textbook or program adopted for use in Kentucky public schools in kindergarten through grade twelve, expect the Department of Education to require you, to the extent feasible, to furnish computer files or electronic versions of the printed textbooks and instructional materials in formats comparable to the printed version that are compatible with commonly used Braille translation and speech synthesis software (KRS 156.027(4)).
  • Make the electronic version a comparable version, with all elements of the print version present, including graphics with ALT tags, in a format readable with text and screen readers such as HTML or XML; legacy materials are exempt from these criteria (KRS 156.027(1)(c) and (4)).
  • Provide the files to the Department of Education at the same time as the printed version, in composition and form comparable with it and with the corrections and revisions necessary to ensure clarity in presentation and use (KRS 156.027(4)).
  • On request, make digital files, together with two copies of the print version, available at no charge to the American Printing House for the Blind, and to Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic or another authorized entity, for production of accessible Braille, audio media, digital text and digital talking books (KRS 156.027(5)).
Kentucky Longitudinal Data System: data certification, de-identification, access limits and privacy-law compliance for education and workforce datasince 6 lines

KRS 151B.132 to 151B.134 · Read the law's page

  • If you are a public agency providing data to the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System (the Council on Postsecondary Education, the Department of Education or another agency the section names), certify that the data you provide is accurate; you keep ownership of the data (KRS 151B.132(4) and (7)).for a public body
  • If you are a private institution of higher education, private school or parochial school that the board has approved to provide data to the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System, certify that the data you provide is accurate; you keep ownership of the data (KRS 151B.132(6) and (7)).
  • If you are the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics, develop de-identification standards and processes using modern statistical methods, and establish data quality standards (KRS 151B.133(2) and (9)).for a public body
  • Ensure compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and all other relevant federal and state privacy laws (KRS 151B.133(11)).for a public body
  • Enter into contracts or other agreements only if they incorporate adequate protections with respect to the confidentiality of any information to be shared (KRS 151B.133(14)).for a public body
  • Restrict direct access to data in the system to authorized staff of the office, do not report data that may make an individual or employer identifiable based on the size or uniqueness of the population, and do not release data if federal or state privacy law prohibits disclosure (KRS 151B.134(3)(a)).when it serves a public body
Prohibited uses of personally identifiable student information by a cloud computing service providersince 3 lines

KRS 365.734 · Read the law's page

  • If you operate a cloud computing service for a kindergarten-to-grade-12 educational institution, do not process student data for any purpose other than providing, improving, developing or maintaining the integrity of the service unless the student's parent gives express permission (KRS 365.734(2)).
  • Do not process student data to advertise or facilitate advertising, to create or correct an individual or household profile for any advertisement purpose, or to sell, disclose or otherwise process it for any commercial purpose (KRS 365.734(2)).
  • When you agree to provide cloud computing services to an educational institution, certify in writing to the institution that you will comply with the use limits in subsection (2) (KRS 365.734(3)).

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