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No, parent participation in school council elections isn’t like voter...
More evidence that Kentucky needs to improve the current school council program and offer parents something else – say school choice – that might really get them interested I just got challenged by a...
View ArticleBill’s passage means Jefferson County superintendent has final say on school...
Bill’s passage means Jefferson County superintendent has final say on school principal selection Despite much heated protesting from Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) teachers, who sicked out of...
View ArticleSchool-Based Decision-Making (SBDM) and Kentucky’s proposed social studies...
During the May 14, 2019 meeting of the Kentucky Legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee, I testified about a number of concerns with a very deficient change to Kentucky’s public...
View ArticleAnother group of Kentucky parents learning the sad facts of life about school...
The Herald-Leader has been covering a serious disagreement in Lincoln County Schools over the use of a digital learning program called Summit Learning. In the latest post, “‘Disgust and...
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Parents getting even less interested in Kentucky’s school councils
Kentucky is the only state in the nation that basically has removed major control of its schools from locally elected school boards and instead transferred those powers to a school council established...
View ArticleBill to return rationality to governance of Kentucky’s schools filed
Senate Bill 7, an act relating to school councils, has been filed in the Kentucky Legislature by Kentucky State Senator John Schickel and nine other leading senators. The bill will make some badly...
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Like I said, Parents are getting even less interested in school councils
This is basically a re-issue of an early December blog, but questions on Twitter indicate many missed it last month during the Christmas rush. So, here is an important story on school councils and...
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Quote of the day – Pertains to both reading instruction and Kentucky’s...
“Being a former legislator, what’s been very popular is local control and flexibility. And I supported that from the perspective I was in at that time. But now that I’ve been in this role as state...
View ArticleBill to fix problems with Kentucky’s School Based Decision Making law moves...
Kentucky Senate Bill 7 (SB-7), which will make some important improvements to Kentucky’s troubled School Based Decision Making law, moved out of the Kentucky Senate on Thursday following a 20 – 15...
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Where’s JCPS?
The National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), just Tweeted out an interesting graphic showing those participating school districts that...
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