You are here: Home / Archives for Jefferson County Public Schools

WHAS podcast featuring BIPPS on Jefferson County Schools

February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment

This morning on WHAS, Mandy Connell spent a significant amount of time discussing recent comments by the Kentucky Department of Education claiming that there was “academic genocide” occurring in Jefferson County Public Schools.

In the first hour of the show, Connell reads an email from Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes (begins around the 17 minute mark in the podcast below):

In the next hour, Jim Waters joined Connell for Bluegrass Mondays and the two further discussed the JCPS situation.

Filed Under: Education, Uncategorized Tagged With: , ,

Jefferson County posts audit report on school district

December 21, 2011 By 1 Comment

The Jefferson County Public School District has published the report on operations in the central district office on line.

Find that here.

You can also listen to a half-hour discussion of the report here.

and a follow-on discussion here.

Here is a tip of the hat to Jefferson County’s new superintendent Donna Hargens for getting this audit completed. Now, it will be up to her and the Jefferson County Board of Education to act on the recommendations.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: , ,

Surprise: Jefferson County Public Schools management is chaotic

November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Apparently, the expensive audit that the Jefferson County Board of Education commissioned to find problems in their school system didn’t have any difficulty finding some.

WAVE-3 reports:

“The question right now for JCPS – who is in charge?”

“The audit found that some people are in charge of too many while in interviews other employees told them they have no supervisor at all.”

Good Grief!

Maybe it is time to break up this behemoth school district that absolutely seems to defy efficient management.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: