Charter School bill clears Kentucky Senate
The Kentucky Senate has voted 23 to 15 in favor of House Bill 520, with amendments, which will allow Kentuckians to create charter schools. The bill now returns to the House for a concurrence vote.
Bluegrass Institute — Charter-school bill: Will kids win?
The Bevin administration and House Republican leadership – despite hard pushes for other platform priorities such as right-to-work and prevailing-wage repeal – may settle for a mediocre charter-school bill. This is a testament to the stronghold the public-education complex has on our commonwealth and to its willingness to put money and control before students’ best…
Bold new evidence: Kentucky does not lead the nation for education improvement
Claim especially misleading for state’s black students Truth supports need for charter schools in Kentucky As arguments swirled the past few months over charter schools, Kentuckians have been hearing claims that their state already leads the nation for the most educational improvement since passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). As a…
Digital learning: Not always pleasing parents
Before getting into this, I want to stress that I believe digital learning has strong potential to improve K to 12 education. I base that opinion on my own experience when I was an Air Force instructor pilot and an instructional technology program developer for the first generation of automated teaching machines to go operational…
Kentucky’s Real Progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
On Friday, March 3, 2016 the Kentucky House made history when it voted for the first time in favor of a charter school bill and sent it on for Kentucky Senate approval. The vote was contentious. Debates in the morning meeting of the House Education Committee and during the eventual deliberation and adoption of the…
News release: Bluegrass Institute asks state Senate to make mayors, universities and the CPE authorizers of charter schools
For Immediate Release: Monday, March 6, 2017 (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation enabling the creation of charter schools in the commonwealth – a school-choice option currently available to families in 43 other states and the District of Columbia. Legislators voted 56-39 to approve Rep. John “Bam” Carney’s…
Kentucky House approves charter school bill
It’s now officially recorded. The Kentucky House has approved the state’s first charter school bill by a vote of 56 to 39.
Legislation Alert: House Bill 520 to establish charter schools passed by Kentucky House Education Committee
Full House debating now Today marks a notable move forward in the attempt to bring more school choice to Kentucky. House Bill 520, with amendments, received a favorable vote in the Kentucky House’s Education Committee this morning. The discussion on the bill included highlights by several key Kentucky leaders including Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, Kentucky…
Event Alert: BIPPS scholar debating charter schools tonight
Bluegrass Institute Scholar and Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) member Gary Houchens will participate in a town hall on charter schools at 6 pm today in Room 110 at Madisonville Community College Muhlenberg Campus, 406 W. Everly Brothers Blvd., Central City. The event is free and open to the public. Houchens, Ph.D., is associate professor…
Beware Beshear’s claims about Kentucky’s high school graduation rates!
Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear delivered a rather weak response to President Donald Trump’s recent — and impressive — address to the joint meeting of the Congress. In his remarks, Beshear touted Kentucky’s rapid growth in high school graduation rates. It sounded impressive, but the nation deserves to hear the rest of this misleading story.…