Charter School bill clears Kentucky Senate
The Kentucky Senate has voted 23 to 15 in favor of House Bill 520, with amendments, which will allow Kentuckians to create charter schools. The bill now returns to the House for a concurrence vote.
Charter School bill passes another hurdle
House Bill 520, which would introduce charter schools to Kentucky, was passed, with amendments, by the Senate Education Committee by a 9 to 3 vote and will probably go to the full Senate this afternoon. If the amended bill is passed by the Senate, it will have to meet concurrence action from the House before…
Bold new evidence: Kentucky does not lead the nation for education improvement
Claim especially misleading for state’s black students Truth supports need for charter schools in Kentucky As arguments swirled the past few months over charter schools, Kentuckians have been hearing claims that their state already leads the nation for the most educational improvement since passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). As a…
Digital learning: Not always pleasing parents
Before getting into this, I want to stress that I believe digital learning has strong potential to improve K to 12 education. I base that opinion on my own experience when I was an Air Force instructor pilot and an instructional technology program developer for the first generation of automated teaching machines to go operational…
Kentucky’s Real Progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
On Friday, March 3, 2016 the Kentucky House made history when it voted for the first time in favor of a charter school bill and sent it on for Kentucky Senate approval. The vote was contentious. Debates in the morning meeting of the House Education Committee and during the eventual deliberation and adoption of the…
Kentucky House approves charter school bill
It’s now officially recorded. The Kentucky House has approved the state’s first charter school bill by a vote of 56 to 39.
Legislation Alert: House Bill 520 to establish charter schools passed by Kentucky House Education Committee
Full House debating now Today marks a notable move forward in the attempt to bring more school choice to Kentucky. House Bill 520, with amendments, received a favorable vote in the Kentucky House’s Education Committee this morning. The discussion on the bill included highlights by several key Kentucky leaders including Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, Kentucky…
Beware Beshear’s claims about Kentucky’s high school graduation rates!
Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear delivered a rather weak response to President Donald Trump’s recent — and impressive — address to the joint meeting of the Congress. In his remarks, Beshear touted Kentucky’s rapid growth in high school graduation rates. It sounded impressive, but the nation deserves to hear the rest of this misleading story.…
Kentucky schools, where an “A” might not really be an “A”
I wrote a few days ago about new research from the Kentucky Department of Education that compares average mathematics letter grades to performance on Kentucky’s math assessments. That initial blog discusses the fact that Kentucky’s children of color are generally getting higher letter grades for math than white students receive for similar test score performance.…
KY State of Education shows serious grading discrepancies by race
Kentucky Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt delivered his second annual “The State of P-12 Public Education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky” report today, making extensive and very candid comments about the serious achievement gap situation in the state. I’ll be spending some time in this report, but I think many at the press conference were…