– 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…
– Kentucky’s commissioner of education says so Over at Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday’s blog, his January 22, 2010 comments are about charter schools and what they could offer Kentucky. He urges Kentucky’s teachers to keep an open mind about charters, pointing out that the key question should be about how charters can “help…
It’s widely accepted – even in the fad-driven public school education community – longitudinal testing of students provides the best data on progress. Longitudinal testing means students take short tests several times during each school term, and they also take similar, coordinated tests each succeeding school year. The result is a rich package of information…
Education Week reports (subscription) that only 40 states applied for Race to the Top funding from the federal government. Reasons for not applying varied, but a general theme for many of the 10 states was not wanting federal intrusion into state operations, whether that involved mandating education policies that might not work or a general…
Here Senator Smith’s comments about his proposed legislation to enforce the Constitution here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIP9WHqjLWY]
Senate Bill 68 was introduced to the Kentucky Senate Education Committee yesterday and passed out to the Senate floor without controversy or dissent. It now resides in the Senate Rules committee I’m glad the bill is getting an additional scrub, because I have some questions. The bill requires the Kentucky Department of Education and the…
Note: This one is really an outgrowth of Monday’s KET show. On a radio talk show today I was challenged by a caller claiming charter schools get a lot more money per pupil than regular public schools receive. The caller specifically cited an astronomical $35,000 per pupil cost for charter schools in Washington, DC. I…
A rotunda-filling crowd filled the capitol rotunda in Frankfort today to hear the Bluegrass Institute’s Jim Waters and other patriots speak out about the need to protect the rights of the states and the people from further encroachment from Washington. Hear Jim’s keynote comments here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmq8e1m49MY] And, stay tuned as we process the other speaker’s…
Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, has announced he will retire at the end of the year when his current term ends. Moberly was once a great mover and shaker in the Kentucky House, playing a key role in a number of actions that included a stauch defense of the Kentucky Education Reform Act since that law’s…
It looks like the first show in KET’s new series, Education Matters, which aired Tuesday on KET 1, is already on line. Find the webcast here.