The Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Committee on Education held a series of discussions about school choice options that might work in the state on Monday, October 12, 2015. One of the major topics covered was the Scholarship Tax Credit program where businesses can get a tax credit for making investments in children with scholarships that…
Don’t know what Education Savings Accounts are or how they are opening up great education opportunities for students in other states who are not thriving in the one-size-must-fit-all traditional public education system? Now you have an easy way to find out. Dr. Vicki Alger is a real expert on school choice issues such as Education…
Don’t know what Education Savings Accounts are or how they are opening up great education opportunities for students in other states who are not thriving in the one-size-must-fit-all traditional public education system? Now you have an easy way to find out. Dr. Vicki Alger is a real expert on school choice issues such as Education…
Editor’s note: Since this column was originally released on Sept. 17, the commonwealth finally – finally – posted the KentuckyWired contract. However, the points made here about this big-government boondoggle remain very timely and relevant. If Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration wants taxpayers to trust it to build KentuckyWired – a $350 million, 3,000-mile high-speed Internet…
The Daily Times from Glasgow reports that “Barren Circuit Judge Phillip Patton agreed with an earlier decision by the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General that the Glasgow Independent Schools Board of Education willfully violated the Open Meetings Act in a judgement (sic) entered on Thursday.” In addition to this reconfirmed violation by the Glasgow…
Those of us at the Bluegrass Institute are still reeling from the shocking announcement yesterday that Dr. Dewey Hensley, one of the real educational stars in Kentucky, is quitting his post as the chief academic officer at the Jefferson County Public School District (JCPS). For sure, Hensley’s resignation letter makes it very clear: he isn’t…
By Richard G. Innes, staff education analyst Kentucky’s recently retired Commissioner of Education, Terry Holliday, spent his final day on the job tooting his own horn to the Kentucky School Advocate about improvements in his “college and career ready” statistics. The numbers Holliday cites certainly have risen sharply. In fact, what currently are correctly described…
Report embargoed until: Friday, Oct. 9, at 9:30 a.m. (eastern) Contact: Jim Waters 270-320-4376 Terry Holliday, Kentucky’s recently retired Commissioner of Education, spent his final day on the job crowing about improvements in his “college and career ready” statistics. The numbers Holliday cites are up sharply, and both the college and/or career ready and high…
Common Core implications? There were a lot of very interesting revelations in yesterday’s meeting of the Kentucky Board of Education. Among them was this disturbing comment from Robert King, the president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, which oversees all the state’s public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions. There you have it – straight…
Donnie Wilkerson, Kentucky’s History Teacher of the Year in 2011, rides an automobile instead of a horse. However, in some ways his message to the Kentucky Board of Education today about the continuing effort to trash Kentucky’s social studies program with a terrible revision to the standards for that course of study does relate to…