It has been said time and time again: transparency is the first step toward accountability. Kentucky’s public pension system is broken and to truly reform it we need it to be transparent. Contact your legislator and tell them: I want to see a transparent public pension system in Kentucky.
I’m starting to hear some doubts about the recent survey of parents that supposedly says something like 85 percent of Kentuckians would like to see a minimum dropout age of 18 in Kentucky. Some of those concerns involve this graphic, which supposedly shows educational backgrounds of the parents surveyed. Aside from some obvious graphing errors…
The Bluegrass Institute recently sat down to talk about public education in Kentucky with Billy Harper, who recently completed a four-year term on the Kentucky Board of Education. In this final segment, he talks about his optimism for the future of Kentucky’s education system while emphasizing that current reform efforts require persistence. “The worst thing we…
If you are reading this, you almost undoubtedly don’t want to ship more of your money to Frankfort. According to a new poll from the Courier-Journal, neither do 69 percent of your fellow Kentuckians. The problem here is our governor may not be listening. He thinks you need more education on the issue. For sure,…
A recent editorial by the Lexington Herald-Leader hits on something that the Bluegrass Institute has been championing for years now: public pension transparency. Most of the piece focuses on funding the pension system’s substantial shortfall but at the end this point is made: Both systems lack transparency. Even though every taxpayer in Kentucky will contribute…