Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday unveiled his new strategic plan for the Kentucky Board of Education during the August 4th and 5th meeting. Here is the overview from his presentation of how that looks: The top row, which is the existing Kentucky Board of Education’s vision statement, so far is unchanged. The other rows…
The Kentucky Board of Education held its first meeting with its five recently appointed members, and the Department of Education Staff did a really nice job with a series of morning briefings on the state of education in the state. Three main areas were covered in the morning briefings: • Academic performance and plans for…
Daycare centers are being cut out of bus routes, causing more pain for parents Every time I think the Jefferson County school bus mess is about to calm down, I’m proved wrong. This time, the school district’s busing tsars are disrupting sometimes long-term arrangements between working parents and their day care centers. Check out this…
The Paducah Sun reports (subscription) that the McCracken County Public School District’s employees are going to hear a motivational speech from Ron Clark. Clark is an educator known nationally for his work to motivate elementary students. He gained national attention in 2006 when a made-for-television movie highlighted his story. In any event, while schools across…
A new report from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the US Department of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) provides disturbing evidence that the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) official estimates of high school graduation rates are not only inflated, but they may also be painting an inaccurate picture of the recent…
The Bluegrass Institute honored the late economist Milton Friedman today in an annual event that featured a number of interesting speakers and a panel question and answer session. Here is the keynote address from the Bluegrass Institute’s Vice President for Policy and Communications Jim Waters. Stay tuned for more from this event. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6PujhIp0pM]
Could something similar have happened here? Editors at the Boston Globe are clearly worried about the replacement of two of the Massachusetts Board of Education’s most outspoken critics of the recent decision to drop Massachusetts’ highly regarded education standards. Instead, the state is signing on to the ‘Common Core Standards’ that Kentucky recently adopted. The…
As this map shows, Kentucky, once again, is the only finalist state with NO charter schools! Note: I added circles and the note about them to the base map
In 2008 the Kentucky Department of Education surveyed all the elementary school principals in Kentucky concerning the degree of implementation of the multi-age environment in their schools. This offered me an opportunity to compare the degree to which Kentucky’s elementary schools adhere to the concept of multi-age grouping – known as “Ungraded Primary” in Kentucky…
The US Department of Education has just released the names of the 18 states plus Washington, DC that remain in the competition for Phase 2 fund awards under the Race to the Top program. Kentucky made the cut. Of course, we made the cut in Phase 1 of RTTT, and came up short when the…