Monday, November 22, 2010

Is 20-year-old KERA cause for celebration or concern?

A new report series issued today by the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free market think tank, discusses how an education fairytale in 1990 became a policy quagmire, leaving thousands of Kentuckians without core academic skills needed to compete in the 21st century global workplace.

Click here to read the short commentary and here to read the full report.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you Bluegrass Institute for fighting for the kids. Your report provides charts and evidence that leadership looks only 1" deep before opening their mouth and pouring on the accolades.

This report should be of real concern to all the legislators, Commissioner Holliday, KDE managers, the press that bought all the KDE spin and most of all parents who have been mislead for 20 years. And we paid significantly more dollars for this great mirage!

Anonymous said...

Let's hope the candidates for Governor in 2011 read this report and clearly state their positions on reforming Kentucky's K-12 performance.

Currently the Governor defaults to setting up special task forces made up of key status quo protectors. That dog hasn't hunted for 20 years.

The kids deserve true leadership committed to results with education jobs on the line.