It looks like the Corbin Independent schools are not going to just stand by while the Knox County schools revokes a long standing student transfer agreement. First, the Corbin District will try appeals. If that doesn’t work, it’s the courts.
Here’s why: just look at the high school No Child Left Behind performance in the two districts. Most kids in Corbin Independent learn math. Most kids in Knox County don’t.
– Commissioner of Education sends confusing signals During direct questioning about House Bill 176 from members of the House Education Committee, Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday named 12 schools that would be identified as “Persistently Low-Achieving Schools” if the bill’s ‘Race to the Top’ rules were in force today. Dr. Holliday really had no…
– New bill retreats from KERA One of the more intelligent parts of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA) was the requirement that all people working in the state’s public schools would have to have at least a GED or high school diploma. After all, if we are going to tell kids that…
Parents and college educators are suing the the Seattle public schools over the choice of math programs in the district’s schools. The series, “Discovering Math,” is a darling of fuzzy math types and very likely is being used somewhere in Kentucky, too. Here is the link to the KIRO TV news article about the lawsuit…
– New international data shows US not making any Recent data from “Education at a Glance 2009”, a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), paints a disturbing picture about educational progress in the United States. This OECD graph shows the comparative education levels of 55 to 64 year-olds (solid red squares)…
– They do charter schools right! – Put kids first, too! While Kentucky debated its unexciting House Bill 176 to support our application in the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) education funding competition, other states weren’t sleeping. The Boston Globe reports Massachusetts just passed sweeping legislation for its RTTT package that makes House Bill…
Here is what Representative Stan Lee said to the Tenth Amendment Rally last week in Frankfort. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-boeiZkzo]
Will proposed zoning changes in Fayette County wreck havoc on No Child Left Behind Accountability the same way that busing changes in Louisville did last year? Stay tuned.
– It’s just about money! There is a huge brouhaha going on in Knox County, where the county’s public school system is in a mounting fight with the Corbin Independent School District over where kids are choosing to go to school. Knox County, citing money issues, NOT what is best for kids, is cancelling a…