Each member of the ADP Network has committed to a common policy agenda, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Highlights of this state's action plan are below. Click here to download a PDF of the complete plan.

Policies and Action Steps

1. Align high school standards and assessments with the knowledge and skills required for success after high school. (Spring 2006–Spring 2007)
   • Articulate more clearly and consistently the expectations of postsecondary education and the workforce, including through admissions and placement decisions.
   • Review and refine K–12 content and performance standards to meet those expectations.
2. Require all high school graduates to take challenging courses that actually prepare them for life after high school. (Spring 2006)
   • Revise minimum graduation requirements to require all students to take a single, rigorous college- and work-ready curriculum.
   • Amend Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship regulations to limit participation to students who have successfully completed college- and work-ready curriculum.
   • Require all students to have an Individual Learning Plan (ILP).
   • Encourage postsecondary institutions and workforce partners to use ILPs in admissions and placement decisions.
   • Improve teacher access and quality to support curriculum implementation.
   • Provide individualized courses online for students who are not yet ready for postsecondary work.
   • Enact policies to increase number of students participating in proven, credit-based transition programs (such as AP, dual credit and IB) and earning college credit while in high school.
3. Streamline the assessment system so that the tests students take in high school also can serve as readiness tests for college and work. (Spring 2006–Spring 2007)
   • Implement a more comprehensive and aligned approach to high school assessments, including assessments that are more predictive of college and work readiness. Require all students to take predictive assessments in the late middle/early high school years to guide student course-taking.
   • Provide additional assessment measures such as formative assessments, diagnostic assessments and end-of-course assessments.
   • Develop Learning Promise Program to trigger supports for students at transition points who perform in lowest two categories on state tests.
   • Work toward online delivery of tests.
4. Hold high schools accountable for graduating students who are ready for college or careers, and hold postsecondary institutions accountable for students' success once enrolled. (2005–2008)
   • Increase accountability for successful student transitions to postsecondary, based on ILPs and make these results and their consequences more transparent to the public.
   • Hold schools accountable for providing course of study, interventions and expanded learning opportunities that align with goals in students' ILPs.
   • Establish longitudinal data system to track student progress from elementary through middle and high school and into postsecondary.
   • Establish institutional-level accountability measures for postsecondary persistence and completion, strengthen impact of results on awards and sanctions, and make these results and their consequences more transparent to the public.
   • Communicate impact of educational attainment on local economy with the public.

ADP Network Team
Entities responsible for carrying out the Kentucky ADP action plan include: