The Republic from Columbus Indiana reports that the Jefferson County School Busing program doesn’t look too good to two of the three judges on a Kentucky appeals court. Opinions of a third jurist were not revealed during the hearing which did not render a final ruling in the case. The reporter indicates that comments made…
WXIX news reports the Jefferson County school bus plan is headed for another court review to see if it complies with state law. The Jefferson County school bus system requires some students to take bus rides clear across Louisville – trips that take more than an hour one way – even though schools are located…
Hopefully, a press release from the Association of American Educators is going to spur teacher union bosses to make some changes. The press release points to results from a recent Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup poll that shows: “…71% of respondents said that they have trust and confidence in America’s teachers. However, when asked about the teacher…
Dr. Wayne D. Lewis, Jr. from UK is starting a series in his blog about charter schools. It’s well worth a look.
The ACT score release had me tied up last week, but searching through the Courier-Journal’s web site today, this very short article popped up. It says, “Last JCPS student off bus at 6:15 p.m. Thursday.” The article goes on to say the last student got home on the first day of school about an hour…
Maysville’s The Ledger Independent has chimed in on the new ACT results, as well. We need to be cautious about comparing Kentucky’s latest results to the national average (because only 49 percent of graduates took the ACT nation-wide while all of Kentucky’s Class of 2011 did). Still, the point that a newspaper is now saying…
There is no question that the new ACT college entrance test results have not exactly impressed the editors at the Independent in Ashland. The article starts out by saying: “The scores received by members, of Kentucky’s graduating class of 2011 on the ACT college entrance exam are in and, in a word, they are dismal.”…
It’s a real problem. Education Commissioner Terry Holliday says that across Kentucky, the student-to-guidance-counselor ratio is less than one to 500. That isn’t nearly enough to give each student the sort of individual guidance and attention necessary to develop a solid plan for college and careers. Especially now that we are testing all of our…
Yesterday, I posted information from the ACT about the percentages of white and black graduates in 2011 that were fully prepared for college. To keep that comparison fair, I only looked at states that tested 100 percent – or nearly 100 percent – of all 2011 high school graduates with the ACT college entrance test.…
After I started posting comments on the new ACT score release yesterday, I was engaged by an anonymous reader with an obvious bias against charter schools. That individual also seems to be having a lot of trouble getting his or her facts straight. That happens in this blog from time to time, and we do…