This CN|2 report says Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday is in favor of charter schools for Kentucky. Holliday knows there are now outstanding examples of charter school successes. CN|2 quotes Holliday asking: “What are these outstanding charter schools doing that we could bring to these districts of innovation in Kentucky?” That is a great…
Choice, Accountability and Flexibility in Charter Schools It’s national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we are featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. This is our third video in the series, and it discusses how charter schools offer expanded school choices for…
Charter School Types Vary It’s national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we are featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. Our first blog for the week released yesterday and dealt with some general questions about what charter schools actually are. In today’s…
Today kicks off the national school choice week, and as part of the Bluegrass Institute’s observations we will be featuring a series of videos on school choice issues of interest here in Kentucky. Of course, our biggest choice issue in the Bluegrass State is that we have just about the worst school choice programs of…
A relatively new group, StudentsFirst, has some on-target goals for public education. They say: “We are on a mission to transform public schools and equip every child with the skills and inspiration necessary to achieve their life’s dreams. We are driven by the belief that every child—regardless of background—has the capacity to learn if put…
No kidding! A USA Today column on January 1, 2014 says New York City’s new mayor should wake up to the DRAMATIC performance in the city’s many charter schools. What kinds of performance? Here are a few extracts from the column: • Stanford’s Center for Research on Educational Outcomes (CREDO) revealed that in just one…
By now, you probably would have to live on another planet – or strictly confine your reading only to what the Kentucky Education Association publishes – to not know about the huge charter school miracle going on in Louisiana. These public schools have created a post-Hurricane Katrina miracle. And, even the crowd that published some…
A new report on the superior performance of Boston’s charter schools got me thinking about a comparison with Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools. Both Boston and Jefferson County are large, city-based school systems, but I honestly thought the student demographics in Boston would give that city a notable advantage over the Louisville area schools in…
Here are some interesting facts from the Alliance for Public Charter Schools, with a few added comments from me: • Children who attend charter schools are more likely to graduate from high school than their traditional school peers. And dozens of charter schools across the country have 100 percent college acceptance rates for their graduating…
“Millions of students across America,” and thousands right here in Kentucky, “are not getting the education they deserve.” In the new Bluegrass Institute report, “Kentucky’s ‘Unbridled Learning,’ Unrigorous School Accountability for African-American Students?,” we provide dramatic evidence of schools in the Bluegrass State where whites or blacks are being solidly left behind in mathematics. In…