Senate Bill 128 would apply to K-12 students currently enrolled in Kentucky schools and allow families to petition their local school boards or private school systems for a supplemental academic year.

Elementary schools will reopen on Sept. 16 while preschools will resume in-person instruction on Sept. 21, according to a letter from OCS.

“Our goal is to have a transparency at the state level and at the local level that protects the individual students’ health information and identity but can give parents the information that they deserve,” Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. 

Some school districts have already heeded Beshear’s advice and announced plans to start the school year remotely with nontraditional instruction.

Nearly 70% of the district’s 10,000 students attended in-person classes when GCCS opened its doors on July 29, becoming one of the first Indiana school districts to start the 2020-21 school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Jefferson County Board of Education will decide whether fall sports will continue as planned at its Aug. 18 meeting, which is two days before the next KHSAA meeting, JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio said.

In a social media post Friday, Oldham County Schools Superintendent Greg Schultz cited concerns with class sizes and detailed his proposal to alternate students for in-person instruction in the district's middle and high schools for at least the first four weeks of the 2020-21 school year.

The private school was one of the first to reopen for the 2020-21 school year in Indiana on July 22.