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…
Parent-friendly approaches for improving education were the subject of one of the highlight briefings in today’s meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education at Northern Kentucky University. Boone County outreach pro Dr. Anna Marie Tracy discussed a number of different ways Boone County Public Schools reaches out to welcome parents to help them get…
I’ve been talking the past few days about some remarkable information in a new federal study on school district funding across the nation. What makes this study especially unique is that it separately reports fiscal data for the 1,673 school districts around the country where EVERY school is a charter school. Of course, none of…
I blogged yesterday about a new federal report from the National Center for Education Statistics that contains some surprising new information. Among other surprises, this report reveals that in some states there are a surprising number of school districts where every school is a charter school. That means every single school in those districts has…
– A LOT CHEAPER! I just learned to my surprise that across the country there are now 1,673 school districts where EVERY school is a charter school. That compares to 13,560 other school districts nationwide where only some, or none, of the schools are charters (Officially, Kentucky has no charter schools although we think that…
As First Lady Jane Beshear gets ready to kick off her forum on Kentucky’s endemic problems with high school graduation rates, I thought everyone might benefit from seeing Kentucky’s numbers using a well-researched high school graduation rate formula created several years ago by the US Department of Education. This formula is known as the Averaged…
As Kentucky gets ready to host its “Graduate Kentucky Forum” this weekend, Education Week reports (subscription, but a free trial is currently available) that 13 states, eight years after passage of No Child Left Behind, still do not report separate graduation rates for students still learning English. A PDF table linked from the news article…
The White House has publicly released the prepared remarks President Obama plans to make tomorrow to students ranging from preschoolers to high school seniors. Given the controversy surrounding this speech, it will be interesting to see the reactions, especially from the target audience, the huge age span of children (Pre-K to Grade 12) the president…