Case being referred to FBI New superintendent asked for audit In the latest of an on-going stream of highly revealing audits of improper activities in local school systems around Kentucky, Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts Adam H. Edelen just released a new shocker on highly questionable payments to the recently retired superintendent in the Dayton…
Georgia State Representative Alisha Thomas Morgan (D) Austell, is an interesting lady. This former NAACP organizer used to have the same sorts of fears about charter schools as a great unknown that many still seem to have in Kentucky. Kentuckians need to listen to her explain how she came to change her mind.
As Education Week points out, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has long been considered an asset for the Obama Administration. But, Duncan made some incorrect claims recently about the impacts of the pending fiscal sequestration on education around the country, and he is being called out about it – NOT by Republicans, but the…
Maybe not The Louisville Courier-Journal reported today, “Audits: 7 JCPS low-performing schools making improvements, can keep principals.” Well, maybe not. I have not had time to evaluate the audits, but I know there is no requirement for the commissioner of education to follow the auditors’ recommendations. In fact, I seem to recall precedents of the…
While too many Kentucky’s children languish in under-performing schools, students in 42 states around the country now have the additional school choice of charter schools to expand their educational options. In fact, a recent Air Force Times news article reports that you can even find charter schools on some of the nation’s major military installations.…
Some of Kentucky’s public schools – especially some in Louisville – perform so poorly that education commissioner Terry Holliday told the Kentucky Senate’s Education Committee today that he doesn’t think the situation “could get any worse.” Holliday told the committee he wants to add public charter schools to the mix of tools he has to…
“What we’ve done for the last three years has not worked. So, I think it may be time to try something else. I don’t think it could get any worse.” Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday commenting on the lack of progress in some of Kentucky’s Persistently Low-Achieving Schools The Kentucky Senate’s Education Committee had…
The tables below (click on it to enlarge, prints out best on legal size paper), have some very interesting information about the new PLAN test performance in Jefferson County’s high schools and the most recently available demographic data for those schools. PLAN is a test from the ACT, Incorporated that is linked to the ACT’s…
I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around the thinking in House Bill 283. This bill would allow locally elected school board members join the health care plan their school district offers to employees at taxpayer expense. That is problematic. For one thing, local school board members are not full time – or even part time…
The Kentucky Senate’s Education Committee today heard – and approved – Kentucky Senator Dan Seum’s Senate Bill 216 to establish the right of students to attend their neighborhood school. One intention of the bill is to end the busing madness in Louisville. As the vote was being conducted on this bill, one committee member (who…