The Louisville Courier-Journal is spreading ink and electrons again regarding supposed uneven racial demographics in the Jefferson County Public Schools. This despite the fact that USA Today reports that Louisville has a better racial mix in its schools than other areas of the country. The unfortunate truth is that a better racial mix in schools…
Will Jay Box, president-elect of the Kentucky Community & Technical College System, be compensated at the same level as outgoing KCTCS president Michael McCall, whose salary and benefits added up to a hefty $669,463 last year? There’s no way for taxpayers to know – at least not until the contract’s signed. Who were the 40…
Thanksgiving is a time of remembrance and gratefulness in our country. It’s a time when we recall the sacrifices and great struggles our forebears endured to build our great nation. And, in some states they do a solid job of teaching public school students about the background of this major American holiday. For example, the…
A lack of transparency puts taxpayers who fund the government, including its secretive practices, at a distinct disadvantage from which it’s difficult to recover. So says the man widely hailed as a key architect of the imploding, incompetently named Affordable Care Act. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and basically, call it the…
Hear Dave Adkission, head of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, explain to the Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Education Committee why he and the vast majority of his organizations members favor public charter schools.
Here is a discussion about some common myths about charter schools. This comes from people involved with these innovative, public schools of choice in Philadelphia. Students in a Philadelphia charter high schools benefit from results like zero dropout rates and 97 to 100 percent college going rates. No wonder members of the Philadelphia teachers union…
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few days about intentional lack of transparency with the development and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, but Kentuckians don’t have to look to Washington for examples of the public’s business being kept from the public and their elected officials. In fact, a story WDRB…
During the Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Education Committee hearings on school choice and charter schools for Kentucky on November 10, 2014, one Kentucky state senator said he first needed to do more research, including digging into such things as terrible performance at Lexington’s William Wells Brown Elementary School. But, how much more research can we…
As I wrote recently the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) is slowing down its adoption timetable for highly problematic changes to the state’s social studies standards to allow a public comment period. That period will end on December 5, 2014. So, now is the time to let the KBE hear your thoughts about whether it’s OK to…
Wayne Lewis knows a lot about charter schools. He also knows a lot about the public education situation for Kentucky’s racial minorities, and he isn’t happy with what he sees happening to the state’s children of color. Lewis isn’t just upset with Louisville’s schools, either. In his comments to the Kentucky Legislature’s Interim Joint Education…