Phil Moffett, a member of the Bluegrass Institute Board of Directors, will discuss public charter schools on the KY Grassroots Radio Show at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Listen to the live stream at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ky-grassroots-radio.
Jim Waters just posted an excellent commentary on the deceptive reading test results that the Jefferson County Public School system has been handing out through the Every1Reads program. Jefferson County turned true reading scores from the Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) part of the state’s CATS assessments on their ear. Instead, Jefferson County invented its…
By covering up poor academic scores, leaders of Kentucky’s largest school district prove they care more about appearance than performance. Click here to read the latest Bluegrass Beacon column from Jim Waters.
Gov. Steve Beshear recently laid out his budget priorities: “It’s investing in education for our kids, it’s maintaining our health care safety net and it’s protecting the public safety.” It’s past time to challenge the value added for each dollar spent in the education budget. Take Jefferson County as an example. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDUrsDJ-syc] Have you seen…
Some Kentucky elected officials are again becoming stimulated by the possibility of expanded gambling as a panacea for the commonwealth’s budget challenges. This state of mind is being exacerbated by Ohio’s decision to approve casinos in four populated areas. Ohio did it because Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania did it. William Thompson, a University of Nevada-Las…
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…