Multiple news sources are reporting that Kentucky has lost the Race to the Top (RTTT) federal education funding competition – again. Formal announcement is expected from the US Department of Education a bit later today along with the amount of awards each winning state will receive. Per multiple news sources, the winners include; • Florida,…
Rule limited discussion of problems The Jefferson County Board of Education’s rule is hard to understand. If you want to speak at many legislative meetings, all you have to do is show up a few minutes early and sign up on the speakers’ list. The same was true under former Kentucky Board of Education chair…
It looks like a hot meeting is on the way tomorrow night at the Jefferson County Board of Education’s Vanhoose Education Center. Fox 41 reported several days ago that parents are “Still heated over busing issues.” But, the real news attached to that article may be a reader comment from Ms. Kerry Seelye. Seelye isn’t…
Since shortly after KERA got going back in 1990, our educators and some state leaders have been bombarding us with claims about all the education progress we have made. It happened again this past week during the governor’s TEK Task Force regional conferences. What, exactly, does Kentucky’s progress look like? Given past trends, how long…
One of the interesting reports about the Class of 2010’s newly released ACT performance is titled, “Kentucky, The Condition of College and Career Readiness, Class of 2010.” That report, just released on Wednesday, offers a number of comparisons between where our kids want to go and how well prepared – or not – they are…
As we already reported, the Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Committee on Education heard testimony on charter schools in its August meeting. The video below has comments our own Jim Waters’ presented to the committee. By the way, Jim’s testimony got one of the reporters at this event very upset. That reporter simply could not come…
Test results for Kentucky’s 11th grade students on the ACT college entrance test have only been out a short time, but Harlan County Schools Superintendent Tim Saylor may have already won the worst-excuse-for-bad-scores contest. Saylor takes a prize for his excuses for the extremely low ACT Composite Score of only 16.4 that his 11th grade…
WAVE-3 has the details, including a video interview with the child’s mom, here. This is what happens when social engineering tries to trump education in neighborhood schools. When will the people in Louisville wake up?
As promised, here is a place to post comments about Governor Beshear’s Transforming Education in Kentucky Forums that were held around the state yesterday, August 17, 2010. I’ll withhold my comments for a few days to let you, our valued readers, chime in.
The Kentucky Department of Education just issued Press Release 10-044 with the public school only ACT-tested high school graduate scores for 2010. That allowed me to make 2010 additions to this table, which shows public school only ACT performance in Kentucky since 1993. Note that the ACT Composite Score (an average across the four academic…