You can’t lose money – if you’re an educator in Jefferson County The table below shows what happened to the first nine principals to be removed from the Persistently Low-Achieving Schools in Jefferson County. This table tells a very unsatisfactory tale. All of the principals were removed from these schools for cause (each principal had…
Oh, Boy, is teacher ‘Professional Development’ fun in Louisville! Professional Development is what educators call continuing education for teachers. Check this comment: “(An administrator has in the past provided) professional development (off campus) with a corkage fee for alcohol showing on the invoice for payment, and rebuked financial services for questioning the expenditure.” In other…
Will tie teacher pay and evaluation to improved student performance It has taken several years, but with final begrudging approval of the teachers union in Louisville, at least four of the city’s many Persistently Low-Achieving Schools (PLA schools) will use the “Transformation Model” to try to turn chronic low performance for students around. Under this…
A ‘follow the money’ adventure! Go ahead, set your own salary!!! I got a tip recently that the number of Jefferson County Public Schools employees earning over $100,000 annually is way out of line with similar sized school districts around the rest of the country. While I am still researching that, I now know one…
It looks like a bill to increase Kentucky’s minimum high school dropout age to 18 will enter the legislative process again this year, so I decided to update a little study I did last year. For starters, there is already research that questions the effectiveness of the Age 18 idea. When Massachusetts looked at similar…
North Carolina is changing its high school assessments and will begin testing all of its juniors with the ACT college entrance test. This past year, nine states tested all, or nearly all, of their high school graduates with the ACT. This provides these states with valuable information about how well they are preparing students for…
A group of Kentucky education organizations has banded together to grab a bigger percentage of a very stressed state tax pot. These education folks are quick to point to some decay in one element of our overall education funding for schools while totally ignoring the reality that overall, taxpayers have made some pretty decent increases…
A new group has put some serious energy behind a push for charter schools in Kentucky. The group, Kentuckians Advocating Reform in Education, hopes that Kentucky will cease to be one of a small number of states with no broad-based charter school law. Here’s the ad the group has been running around the commonwealth. This…
Hal Heiner, chairman of The Kentucky Coalition for Parental Choice & Public Charter Schools, will be on The Mandy Connell Show on Louisville’s 84WHAS Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. (eastern) Listen in live here. At 1 p.m., Phil Moffett, the institute’s president and CEO, will be on Kruser and Krew show on Lexington’s 590 WVLK-AM/FM. Listen here. You…
Former two-term Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts “Crit Luallen said the one area she didn’t get to thoroughly investigate was the efficiency of Kentucky’s 174 local school district administrations.” Ryan Alessi has the details on CN|2. Luallen’s comments are particularly ironic given a new audit released just before Christmas on Jefferson County Public Schools, the…