By any measure, the federal “Head Start” preschool program for poor children is a huge program, and it has been operating long enough that we now should have a good understanding of how well this program really functions. But, as the Independent Women’s Forum’s Carrie Lukas reports in Forbes, despite billions of dollars already expended…
We’ve heard a lot of criticism of charter schools from teachers’ union folks and their allies recently. You need to know that there is a lot more to the discussion that Kentuckians deserve to hear, but the unions are not saying. If you want to find out what the teachers’ union folks don’t want you…
The Independent from Ashland gets it I started writing last week about the recent score release from the PLAN and EXPLORE tests given to all Kentucky 10th and eighth grade students (respectively) in the fall of this school term. My first comments were focused on low performance in Jefferson County’s schools because I was on…
Breathitt County Schools superintendent indicted for vote buying LEX18.com has the details.
Yesterday the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) released the testing results from the fall for the PLAN and EXPLORE testing in Kentucky. These two tests are coordinated at the grade appropriate level with the ACT college entrance test and use similar Benchmark Scores to show if students are on track to be successful in college…
While Kentuckians have to listen to excuses about why our state won’t move forward with innovative education solutions, Louisiana’s governor is displaying leadership and taking measures to empower education professionals with the authority they need to make significant reforms in their school systems. From the Pelican Post: The existing law includes language that prohibits school…
With the announcement of a new administrative cabinet in the Jefferson County Public School system comes the unhappy news that Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Associate Commissioner Dewey Hensley will be leaving state service to return to his former school district. Hensley’s new post will be as Chief Academic Officer in the reformed Jefferson County…
They should have seen it coming. By the time the Livingston Central High School was added to the list of Persistently Low-Achieving Schools (PLAs) in Kentucky, the program was no longer a secret. In fact, the PLAs program had already completed two cycles of school selections. Livingston had to know they were getting close. In…
This is how the Associated Press describes the story … Tanya McDowell, the Bridgeport mother accused of fraudulently enrolling her son in a Norwalk school and stealing more than $15,000 in educational services from the district, has pleaded guilty. McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison, suspended after five, and must pay back up…
Some of you who are not regular readers of this blog probably crossed your eyes over this headline. “How can you read kids a reading test,” you probably asked yourselves. Well, this is Kentucky, where just about every radical education fad has its day. Back in the early days of KERA, in the interests of…