Public release of low-achieving schools’ audits coming

Per my conversation with Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday today, in the next day or so his department will publicly post the recent School and District Leadership Audits that were conducted back around March.

Those audits look at the 10 schools and owning school districts that were identified as Kentucky’s very lowest performing “Persistently Low-Performing Schools.” These are also discussed as the “Persistently Low-Achieving Schools,” by the way.

This is a nice increase in transparency for the department, and there is public interest in seeing what the auditor’s learned in each of these clearly problematic schools.

We’ll post the links as soon as they are available.

A listing of the 10 schools is available below in a table that gives an idea about how long each principal has been at the school. Those highlighted in pink have probably been in the schools long enough that the rules for the School Improvement Grant program will require their removal.

(Click on Table to Enlarge)