The Kentucky Club for Growth today urged legislators not to back up on their promise to start digging us out of our more than $30 billion public pension hole and to vote against House Bill 117. The Club’s Andy Hightower asks the only question left to ask: “HB 143, just passed, borrows significant sums from…
Click the play button on the left side of the audio slider to hear this interesting commentary. It’s gratifying that even Bob Sexton over at the Prichard Committee now agrees with a long-standing BIPPS position that our CATS school assessments need extensive reworking. Also, note that Susan Weston continues to contend that Kentucky’s kids score…
While I was putting together a response to another blog, this grammar correction ‘gem’ popped up in Microsoft Word. This example of computer grammar correction run amuck relates to writing instruction in Kentucky. Until very recently, Kentucky’s teachers graded writing on a “holistic” basis, meaning that the grade was based only on an overall impression.…
Thirteen current Kentucky state Senators promised never to support tax increases. If they keep their word, their votes will be sufficient to force the governor to face up to wasteful spending policies. They are twelve Republicans and one Democrat. The Americans for Tax Reform tax pledge signers are Sen. Walter Blevins, Sen. Charlie Borders, Sen.…
Global warming got a huge boost from all the tax increase hot air on the House floor in Frankfort today. Rep. Stan Lee, however, went straight to the heart of the whole charade. This is just the beginning of the tax increase effort from the House.http://www.motionbox.com/external/hd_player/type=sd,video_uid=309dd8b5191ae5c1be
The Family Foundation of Kentucky announced today its opposition to HB 28 with an interesting take on the bill: “The bill, House Bill 28, would allow the father of child born from an adulterous relationship with a married woman to claim parental rights to the child even after the woman had reconciled with her husband.…
A new US Census news release says, “A larger percentage of foreign-born than native-born residents had a master’s degree or higher in 2007, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, 11 percent of foreign-born — people from another country now living in the United States — and 10 percent of U.S.-born…
Data from the Tax Foundation out today suggests sending more money to Frankfort won’t solve the state’s spending problem. From Fiscal Year 2007’s actual state operating revenue of $21.5 billion to Fiscal Year 2008’s estimated state operating revenue of $25 billion, Kentucky’s revenue growth was higher than every other state in the nation except Louisiana.…
If we start fining parents for no-showing teacher meetings, it’s easy to see how we will need to expand the school bureaucracy. A school official would have to be brought in to hear appeals and a low-income fund would have to be set up to pay fines for poor parents. Then we would surely need…
A couple of days ago I posted “NAEP – Beware Those Pesky Cautions” with some interesting data on how our kids’ performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress looks after you separate data for Whites and Blacks. I have now had a chance to run some statistical significance tests on the White eighth grade…