Half a year ago, I made a You Tube about how CATS scoring will be inflated after 2008 – yet again – using an estimated 2008 score for the Valley High School in Jefferson County. I had to use an estimate because the real score for Valley High wasn’t available at the time. It turns…
I just accessed the ACT report mentioned in yesterday’s Kentucky Enquirer about how well Kentucky’s high school students’ interests mesh with projected job openings (not well). The ACT’s report is certainly interesting. Figure 2 in the ACT report (shown below) shows the projected major growth job areas for Kentucky against test results for Kentucky’s Class…
A new tool has just been uploaded in the ACT, Incorporated’s Web site. Here is the description from ACT: Another new feature on ACT’s website is a tool to compare selected data in various combinations in two states. For instance, a biochemical firm located near a state line could search the data for two states…
Think KERA is doing a bang-up job getting kids ready for what comes next in life? Well, think again. The Kentucky Enquirer just ran a highly disturbing article about the serious lack of preparation – including such things as academic accomplishment, career planning, and motivation – that plagues far too many Kentucky high school students.…
Sen. Joey Pendleton has pre-filed SB 12 for the 2009 General Assembly. It is a bill that would require oil companies to offer ethanol-blended gasoline, fuel ethanol, AND unblended gasoline. The bill has an exception for stations that are already required to carry reformulated gasoline. How about an exception for people who don’t like paying…
A couple of very interesting quotes from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Polwatchers Saturday night about political heat he is getting for supporting the bailout bill: ““It’s not fair to paint this as some kind of fatal vote when you’ve got such a huge bipartisan majority voting for it,” McConnell said in his first…
Kentucky Second Congressional District candidate Sen. David Boswell was asked recently his position on Sen. Barack Obama’s plan to abolish secret ballot union elections and allow unions to intimidate their way back into domination of not only the political process, but business operations as well. Watch Boswell as he sides firmly with Obama:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6u2QqJO-jI]
Beshear/Abramson/Yarmuth had a press conference this afternoon to announce that you are spending $68 million extra to the government so they can get credit for paying heating bills for Kentuckians who aren’t you. Oh, and they also wanted to remind you to vote for them. So turn your thermostat down this winter so others won’t…
This is pegging my irony meter:Is Steve Beshear seriously giving investment advice? How about “stop spending money you don’t have?” Governor? How about “stop paying too much for school construction?” Or maybe “get realistic about funding long-term liabilities?”
Lexington, Kentucky attorney Kent Masterson Brown, who helped blow the lid off Sen. Hillary Clinton’s secret healthcare planning commission in 1993, was back in the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. filing a lawsuit against the Bush Administration for preventing Americans from opting out of the moribund Medicare program. Brown is attorney for three Medicare-eligible…