We at the Bluegrass Institute extend our best wishes to all Kentuckians for a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday. As a country and commonwealth, we are thankful for liberty’s blessings and also extend our thoughts and prayers to those service men and women who will remain at their post defending our freedoms during this holiday.…
The Obama administration plans a Dec. 3 forum on jobs and economic growth at the White House. Then the president plans to travel around the country and talk, talk, talk, talk, talk about his concern concerning the nation’s jobless rate. But his very visible actions taking over private sector businesses, appointing anti-capitalist czars, pushing for…
Penny Sanders, Kentucky’s first-ever director of the Office of Education Accountability, has been involved with KERA from the get-go. So, comments in her post about “Unfinished Business” are worth everyone’s time to read. I talked to Penny about “Unfinished Business,” and she definitely thinks it is time to look at charter schools as a way…
The Alliance for Excellent Education just published an analysis of the economic costs of high school dropouts for 50 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. That includes this report for the Louisville area. High schools in Louisville and the surrounding 13 counties lost over 30 percent of their students prior to graduation according to the…
WAVE 3 TV in Louisville has an excellent, two-part video series on charter schools. You get both the great positives, including a look at two concrete charter school examples from Indianapolis, and the shots thrown at charters by the naysayers. Here’s the link to the WAVE 3 text article. The links to the two videos…
The proposed health care bill hasn’t been read by many lawmakers. What other potentially harmful, long-winded legislation is overlooked due to length? Click here to listen to the 90-second audio commentary.
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm
Political drums are banging. The Republican Party hasn’t figured out what people want. It just might be they still aren’t listening. The Democratic Party is in complete control in Washington and those folks can’t hear a thing. http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf Let’s hope U.S. Senate candidates Trey Grayson, Rand Paul, Daniel Mongiardo and Jack Conway set a new…
– Yeah, Right! I was really surprised by this one. A new report from the National Association for Gifted Children actually says, “In the 21 states that reported data, the percent of students identified as gifted ranges from less than 2% in Utah and West Virginia to over 25% in Kentucky.” How’s that again? Here…
Educators are quick to forget the past, but the rest of us sometimes have better memories. A new Gates education grant to the Pittsburgh public school system has the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ‘going back in time’ to discuss a similar, large grant the district got in 1988. That effort just didn’t pan out. This time, Gates…