Kentucky's approach to brainstorming school reform is to fill task forces with those who want to protect the status quo and who can’t implement a single reform. It's a brilliant political approach because there will be no real system change and everyone will get along.
But there is a different approach. Real commitment and being really serious about it!
Who will champion this cause in Kentucky?
Who has the courage in Kentucky to tell it the way it is?
Who will -- once and for all -- put Kentucky kids first?
The silence is deafening, isn’t it?
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While Kentucky's incompetent political leadership dithers while yet another generation of students receive a third-world education, NJ Gov. Christie leads. Why can't Kentucky have a leader like Christie or Mitch Daniels of Indiana or Rick Perry of Texas or former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida?
It's basically simple.
1- Commissioner Holliday speaks.
2 - Kentucky power players get out of the way so changes in legislation necessary to let Kentucky's professional educators control all resources and make all decisions - budget, staff, curriculum, rules, etc. - can be enacted.
3 -The legislature acts.
4 - Educators are held accountable for results. No guaranteed jobs. Jobs are earned every day based on performance. Objective metrics, not spin, determine progress week by week.
We know how well it works now with the union and amateurs in control.
Time to speak up. Time for serious adults to put educating Kentucky kids first.
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