Blogs | Kentucky

9/5/22

End practice of using sick-day benefit to spike pensions

8/1/22

Inflation no reason to lose ground on pension progress

6/26/21

Sick leave reform estimated to save taxpayers $50 million per year

4/23/20

Why no seat for taxpayers on new pension board?

8/23/22

Pension spiking problems persist

11/21/21

Reform current pension benefits, ensure systems' future survival

6/9/21

Next steps: More must be done to stabilize teachers' retirement system

1/19/20

Bluegrass Beacon: Pension contract inviolable, not inflexible

8/1/22

Pension reform: Will past performance be the best predictor of future behavior?

10/1/21

Pension-surplus funds not meant to be spent on higher benefits

2/8/21

BIPPS pension reform ideas move forward in the General Assembly

12/2/19

Beshear should end pension spiking for legislators who join his team

6/23/23

The story about improvement in reading in Mississippi continues to get better

1/20/23

Wow! Hispanic students in Florida’s charter schools have eliminated their achievement gap with Kentucky’s white students

11/30/22

KIDS need to be in-person at school , 2022 KENTUCKY school testing results show it

10/31/22

Jefferson County’s NAEP performance – Grade 4 reading

3/21/23

Common Core state tests don’t produce “common” results

1/2/23

Here's the rest of the high school graduation rate story

11/15/22

More on how teaching reading properly works for students

10/29/22

What happened to Kentucky’s NAEP achievement gaps for reading?

2/20/23

About Kentucky’s teacher “CRISIS”

12/14/22

You can’t make good decisions with the wrong data

11/1/22

Jefferson County’s NAEP performance – Grade 4 math

10/28/22

My first surprise in the new NAEP results – And, it isn’t scores

3/13/24

Chorus of concerns raised in hearing about crime bill’s cost, consequences

3/12/24

Kentucky Right on Crime Director: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown about the 'Safer Kentucky Act'

1/23/24

Bluegrass Institute releases policy brief on ‘Safer Kentucky Act’

3/14/24

Education choice saving Arizona millions

8/26/23

More for taxpayers means more for government, too

7/5/23

Kentucky’s education system: Is it time to declare a State of Emergency?

4/10/23

School choice, school politicking and public school legislation

11/6/23

Energy one of the three ‘E’s’ of Kentucky campaigns

8/2/23

Celebrating Calvin Coolidge: An overlooked above-average president

5/14/23

Come-from-behind wins aren’t just for horse races

4/2/23

Let’s refocus on education

10/17/23

Anticompetitive certificate of need laws: Wrong prescription with serious side effects

7/23/23

Growing mountain of evidence confirms denying parental choice the wrong song for Kentucky

4/15/23

Court’s ruling: A disguised blessing?

3/24/23

Changing policy, saving lives

8/26/23

More for taxpayers means more for government, too

9/21/22

Best practices for a better Kentucky: More work, less welfare

1/14/22

Tis the season for true tax reform

8/23/23

BIPPS @ the Table: CON laws interfere with competition, 'impedes entry of additional providers into markets'

5/17/22

Kentucky's big move in the Rainy Day Fund rankings

12/1/20

Report: Economic freedom best path to make Kentucky competitive again

1/13/23

State of the Commonwealth: Getting stronger due to free-market policies, not gubernatorial politics

4/8/22

Bolstered reserves, lower tax burden increase Kentucky’s competitiveness

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