Pay attention near the end of this 3-minute newscast item to comments from the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS). JCPS claims they already knew about the data. Really? Clearly, major news teams in Louisville did not know. Who was keeping the secret? Furthermore, if JCPS knew, what actions have they taken in schools like Noe…
WFPL in Louisville picked up the story today about the white versus black achievement gaps in Louisville that we discuss in our new paper, “Blacks Falling Through Gaps.”
Head over to the Courier-Journal’s website to watch an interview with Bluegrass Institute President Jim Waters talking about Public Charter Schools in Kentucky. JCTA President Brent McKim responded by email in this article. Leave your thoughts about what he says in our comments! (*do we even need to say how insulting this is?) It is unfortunate…
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) – A new Bluegrass Institute policy brief showing academic segregation still exists in Jefferson County Public Schools was released at a news conference today in a crime-ridden area of Kentucky’s largest city. The Bluegrass Institute joined the Black Alliance for Educational Options and local parents, pastors and activists to call on JCPS Superintendent…
So says a front page, top of the fold article that ran in the Kentucky Enquirer’s print edition today. The article talks about how Kentucky and Ohio compare to the rest of the nation, all of which report around 38 to 40 percent of the incoming college class need remediation in at least one college…
While the overall state report for Kentucky’s High School Class of 2012 on the ACT college entrance test won’t be released until August, individual students and schools have already been sharing the good news about outstanding, top 36-point score performance. Kentucky’s trend in this rarified atmosphere at the top of the academic heap already looks…
I will be speaking at a special meeting of the Nelson County Tea Party tonight at 7 p.m. at B.J.’s Restaurant in Bardstown. All are welcome to attend.
Greater transparency and accountability may have exposed padded student counts Kentucky Department of Education briefers unsuccessfully tried to tap dance today around a firestorm that has blown up over the next school year’s funding for preschools. Their two-step involved one of the most confusing presentations I have ever heard in a state legislative meeting (for…
Back in January, Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), parent of the Education Week newspaper, released its “Quality Counts 2012” report, complete with all sorts of rankings of all the states on a variety of indicators. State leadership in Kentucky wasted no time crowing about the fact that Kentucky somehow miraculously moved up 20 places in…
During its scheduled meeting today, the Kentucky Board of Education acted on a proposal that only surfaced a few days ago, adding a four-year extension to Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday’s contract as the state’s chief state school officer. Holliday, who came to Kentucky while the board was still populated by a number of Fletcher-era…