– KERA may be in the way The fallout from Coach Jason Stinson’s criminal trial acquittal in the tragic heat exhaustion death of football player Max Gilpin may serve to highlight the incredible, and widely misunderstood, lack of authority and control now impacting local school boards and district school superintendents in Kentucky. A Courier-Journal editorial…
Apparently, a construction project on Interstate 65 in Louisville will impact the district’s already bothersome busing mess even more. Schools expected to be impacted include Okolona Elementary, Moore Traditional High School, Moore Traditional Middle School, Smyrna Elementary and Southern High school. However, with the city’s major north-south freeway in a mess, city street traffic that…
As I mentioned earlier, the Kentucky Department of Education will release the 2009 No Child Left Behind test results in two days. Jim Warren at the Lexington Herald-Leader has a nice article that covers some of the changes in this year’s report. For anyone interested in our schools and their accountability program, Warren’s article is…
It’s an action that probably has repercussions for Kentucky students and could foreshadow a trend at other competitive colleges. The University of Cincinnati just announced that students who need remedial courses will be diverted to one of the school’s satellite campuses when they enroll next fall. The print version of the Kentucky Enquirer’s news article,…
It seems the Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission voted Friday to allow former Kentucky governor Paul Patton to continue to serve on the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education as its chairman while simultaneously serving as Pikeville College’s president. Use our comments feature to let us know what you think about this.
The Kentucky Department of Education just announced that the 2009 No Child Left Behind scores for Kentucky will finally be released on September 23, 2009. That will be six and a half weeks later than last year’s August 5th release. Some of the delay is explained by bad weather last year which resulted in some…
Special education programs are important for students that really need them; but, as Manhattan Institute’s senior researcher Jay Greene charges in “The Problems with Special Ed,” “Students who are struggling academically — but have no true disability — are being wrongly placed in special education.” Here in Kentucky, there have been discussions that our rate…
Add the Kenton County School System to the small but growing list of Kentucky school districts that are working with taxpayers in these very troubled financial times. Thanks to good fiscal management, this district voted not to increase taxes last month, joining the Walton-Verona Independent schools which also held the tax line and the Beechwood…
The recent brouhaha over President Obama’s speech to school kids left the popular press wondering why there was so much fuss from conservatives. I now know more about why conservatives were upset about this speech, courtesy of the Eagle Forum Web site. Apparently, a contentious You Tube video (find the link in the Web article…
Last night’s KET special on “Kentucky Principals, Leading by Example” (sorry, not yet on line) contained a stunning revelation. Education Professional Standards Board head Dr. Phil Rodgers announced that the certification of every education Masters Degree program in Kentucky will “sunset” (i.e. terminate) in 2010 and the certification of every Kentucky education school’s principal preparation…