Competition: the way a monopoly is dismantled. This week we offer a series of blogs looking at how the traditional public school system in Kentucky – which enjoys a virtual monopoly over deciding where your child can go to school – has been seduced by its own power in arrogant ways that adversely impact students and taxpayers…
I wrote earlier today about a new report that the Jefferson County Board of Education, which is currently embroiled in questions about their ability to manage that school district’s huge budget, has just approved a record-breaking, 10.2 percent increase in their budget for 2014. Some of the information came from a very interesting article in…
First, a little background – The ink is hardly dry on a scathing new audit of the Jefferson County Public School system, which includes sharp comments about a lack of budget understanding on the part of the district’s school board members. For example, the auditor’s findings include: “Finding 9: Board members generally do not appear…
Students upset about staff behavior during testing, investigation In the latest development in the on-going saga of cheating on COMPASS college placement testing at Louisville’s Male High School, some of the school’s students have taken it to school district adults to do the right thing with a protest outside the district offices. With Jefferson County…
Our readers know one of our main concerns about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the amount of upper level high school material that was left out and the growing complaints from teachers that some material is not being introduced at the proper grade level. What CCSS are missing completely The contention that CCSS…
Here is the latest WHAS story about the allegations of cheating by Male High School staff.
This week Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts Adam Edelen delivered an audit on the functioning of the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) District. Plenty of problems are listed in this 301-page report, but the auditor also provides over 200 suggestions on how to improve. That could be helpful – IF – Jefferson County folks ever…
It was only a few hours after the new audit of the Jefferson County Public Schools was released on Wednesday by the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts before the denials started rolling in from Louisville’s entrenched, adults-first interests. WAVE-3’s article, “JCPS fires back after audit claims wasted millions,” carried some of those first denials from…
Confirming problems many have long understood on a subjective basis, the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts just released a huge report on the Jefferson County Public School District (JCPS). The report was actually requested by the Jefferson County Board of Education, which now might better understand its limitations in trying to control the huge bureaucratic…
It was was low profile for some time, but WDRB has now resurfaced a story about a potential cheating scandal at Louisville’s Male High School. WDRB says: “Eight seniors at Louisville Male High School say they were helped by a school official – or witnessed the official helping their peers – on a standardized test…