– But, how will we fund it? – And, will it work? The State Journal from Frankfort reports that a bill to raise the minimum high school dropout age in Kentucky cleared the House Education Committee yesterday. House Bill 301 will eventually – in 2015 – raise the minimum high school dropout age to 18.…
– Newspaper’s honest comments mirror what we’ve said for some time Following the Common Core Standards adoption hoopla this week, the Frankfort Journal issued a remarkably frank editorial titled “Raising the Bar” (subscription) that laid out some of the past failings of KERA with a notable amount of candor. The Journal admits that: “Even after…
Yesterday, Kentucky’s education leaders tried to get a leg up on the Race to the Top (RTTT) federal education funding sweepstakes by jumping the gun on adopting the Common Core Standards. Those education standards are being created by a 48-state consortium under the sponsorship of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief…
I put up a link to a video about the great turn around in the Locke High Charter School in Los Angeles yesterday. I should have mentioned that this school is being run as a “Green Dot” school. Green Dot is a management organization similar to the KIPP Academy program. It is having great success…
Here’s another You Tube that shows what can happen in a really bad school when a state has really good charter school laws. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP0DLPc4Bbs] This story even got the attention of the US Department of Education.
Two key education bills, House Bill 322, which grants school superintendents a more extensive say in the selection of principals, and House Bill 301, which takes a number of actions aimed at improving the state’s inadequate high school graduation rate, received extensive attention today in the House Education Committee meeting. Herald-Leader reporter Ryan Alessi does…
We’ve been covering the loss of parental choice options because of the Knox County Public Schools’ recent cancellation of their long-standing student transfer agreement with the Corbin Independent School District since January. Initially, it looked like around 160 or so kids would be forced to return to Knox County schools, but a new announcement says…
Fortunately, this $1.25 million mess didn’t happen in Kentucky, but there are lessons here for us. The Jennings School District in Missouri purchased thousands of Palm T/Xs to give to every student in the system, grades three to twelve. The plan included spending $200,000 for teacher instruction on how to incorporate these hand-held devices into…
It’s a sad tale – one we want to safeguard against when Kentucky sets up charter schools – but it looks like there were a lot of fiscal oversight foul-ups in Ohio prior to the demise of the Harte Crossroads schools in Columbus. Important records for Harte simply don’t exist, and the possibility of criminal…
“What the heck is school curriculum doing in court, anyway? The answer tells us a lot about the problems of public schools.” Dick Lilly, former member, Seattle Public School Board We blogged a few days ago about a stunning court case in Seattle that says the school district in that city erred when it selected…