Smart dollar management, Mr. Commissioner

In the May 14, 2010 meeting of the Legislature’s Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee (which I attended), Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday said he was going to use money for 35 “Highly Skilled Educator” slots to fund placing two subject matter experts in each of the regional educational cooperatives. Those experts will enhance training for teachers on the new education standards that will soon start to become available in Kentucky.

Using money from the often questioned, dubiously performing Highly Skilled Educator program seems like smart reallocation of scarce resources to me, and it did to legislators, as well.

This is the kind of creative money management Kentucky needs to see a lot more of.