– All we’ve gotten so far is broken promises Back in 2006, the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts did an official audit of the dropout and graduation rate reporting from the Kentucky Department of Education. The auditors found the department was seriously under-reporting dropout rates and over-reporting graduation rates. In their response to that audit,…
– Parents who put learning disabled child in private school win Supreme Court case – NEA caught in the tar baby of not caring about special kids Education Week reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, “Federal law authorizes reimbursements for private school tuition, even when a child has never received special education services…
– Surely someone is joking! US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has repeatedly stated in recent weeks that states which want to compete for second round stimulus money for education must not have laws which inhibit charter school operations. It looked like a real threat for Kentucky because we don’t even have charter schools here…
A new Bluegrass Institute analysis of data from the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education indicates that only 25 percent – just one in four – entering public high school students in Kentucky are adequately prepared for college upon high school graduation. The public high school Class of 2006 started…
– New survey exposes school staff members’ lack of knowledge A remarkable report of a recent survey of teachers and principals, “ON THE FRONT LINES OF SCHOOLS, Perspectives of Teachers and Principals on the High School Dropout Problem,” has just been released by Civic Enterprises. It shows that our school staffers have some very disturbing…
– Caught by Wall Street Journal The National Education Association was caught fibbing about the performance of the Washington, DC, school voucher program. Per the Wall Street Journal, the union seriously misrepresented performance of students in the voucher program, which gives students a publicly financed money voucher that they can use to attend any school,…
– but get results The American Indian Public Charter Schools in Oakland are “Spitting in the eye of mainstream education” according to the Los Angeles Times. The American Indian schools waste no time making the point that they are different, saying they, “…are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. .…
The Bluegrass Institute has been concerned for years about the fact that Kentucky’s public schools have consistently had among the nation’s most top heavy staff to teacher ratios of any state in the nation. We’ve pointed this out since our first publication of our “Ten Great Reasons for School Choice” flier. Averaged across the United…
The Associated Press is emphasizing recent comments from the US Secretary of Education that $5 billion in second round stimulus incentive funding will mostly flow only to states that don’t impede charter schools. Without even a charter school law on the books, it looks like Kentucky could be left out in the cold. The news…
“The education system here is excellent. The kids have learned so much more here, I think, than in the U.S.” Deepa Venkatesh on what she and her husband found when they moved to India from San Diego, quoted by National Public Radio here. A superior education system is one reason why you get to talk…