– But, across the state, Kentucky isn’t meeting the responsibility The Times Tribune reports that those who attended the school choice rally in Corbin this past weekend witnessed a powerful melding of interests from different groups and different regions of the state who now realize they share a common goal – securing better educations for…
New scores from the ACT, Incorporated’s EXPLORE and PLAN tests are out. The Herald-Leader covered some of the general stuff, already, though the paper may be making too much of an apples to oranges comparison by stacking up our 2009-10 scores to outdated national average scores posted half a decade ago. The good news overall…
The latest in the growing story of Knox County Public Schools killing parent choice with the Corbin Independent Schools involves a Knox claim that Corbin turned down an application from a special needs student. Not so, according to Jackie Frost, the child’s mother. Ms. Frost had the courage and honesty to go public with the…
The graph I posted a few minutes ago is already out of date. The Kentucky Department of Education just released the 2009-2010 results for the ACT, Incorporated’s EXPLORE and PLAN tests. I ranked the high schools in Knox and Corbin for the new PLAN data and added that to the data I ranked earlier for…
– Lawyers swap arguments – Kentucky Commissioner of Education urges mediation As the deadline closes for Saturday’s rally to support school choice in the Knox/Corbin area, the lawyers for the two sides are swapping arguments with the Kentucky Department of Education. The lawyer for Knox County is mostly complaining about all the money his district…
– Central Falls wasn’t fooling We reported a few days ago that the Central Falls School District’s superintendent was unable to get teachers to agree to an improvement plan and was planning to fire all the teachers in the district’s Central Falls High School. Now, the Central Falls Board of Education has voted to do…
A new report shows students who took advantage of Milwaukee’s school voucher program had a high school graduation rate 12 points higher than the public schools in that city posted. That works out to be 18 percent better than the city school’s 65 percent grad rate. The report says that over 3,000 more students would…
The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that charter school students in the city increased test scores by nearly 7 points last year on Indiana’s standardized test, called Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus. In contrast, students in regular public elementary schools in Marion County only improved by 1.5 points and the county’s high school students actually…
Before getting into this, I want to make it clear that I am keeping an open mind on the new ‘Common Core’ education standards that Kentucky just adopted – especially because so far we’ve only seen drafts. More work is still expected before the final version releases, perhaps in April. But, I can’t help noting…
We’ve commented already on the big scandal in Pennsylvania where a school district allegedly used special software in loaner computers to spy on students at home. The software in question allowed remote access of the laptops’ webcams, and, perhaps, internal microphones, as well. Now, it turns out the same sort of software was loaded in…