The Kentucky General Assembly couldn't get its work done in the constitutionally mandated 60-day session held earlier this year. So it's coming back to try again in a special session -- at a cost of at least $63,000 a day.
Of course, one of the reasons there wasn't an agreement reached during the regular session is because the Kentucky Senate would not cave on the House's demands for wads of extra spending.
What's missing from all this? Charter schools.
Gov. Beshear seemed to find agreement to add alcohol sampling licenses, but he has little backbone when it comes to plight of the thousands of failing children in Kentucky schools.
You can bet if the teachers union supported charter schools Beshear and the legislature would be running all over themselves to pass it now.
So ...
The governor said he wouldn't add charters to the session's agenda if there wasn't agreement between House and Senate leaders. True leaders may say that, but then they work hard to secure such agreements, something we have yet to see from Beshear. Governors of states providing charter school options led the fight in many cases.
What grade would you give Beshear on leadership for our kids and our future?
So ...
The governor said he wouldn't add charters to the session's agenda if there wasn't agreement between House and Senate leaders. True leaders may say that, but then they work hard to secure such agreements, something we have yet to see from Beshear. Governors of states providing charter school options led the fight in many cases.
What grade would you give Beshear on leadership for our kids and our future?
2 comments:
Beshear gets a F-. He gets the '-' because he tries to spin something positive when he has not done one constructive thing to change a broken system in Jefferson County or fight for the kids in any way. Kentucky education needs a real leader and none can be found starting from the Governor on down. You can bet the adults will take care of the adults. Kids don't vote and the kids don't count in this state.
He gets an F. What we need to do is start getting an opponent to run against this very uneffective governor. Someone who will "actually" balance the budget, stop the unlawful spending on illegals and stop the unnecessary spending. Will one good person please stand up !
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