Rewarding failure: Fayette County Public Schools

Fayette County is Kentucky's second-largest school district. Yet despite the district's proven inability to meet even the most watered-down standards of No Child Left Behind, its superintendent received nothing but positive feedback during the evaluation.

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Fayette County superintendent search, hiring tips

Fayette County Schools has recommended 5 applicants to the school board for consideration in the search for the a new superintendent. Any chance they took these superintendent hiring suggestions into account?

Given the track record in Kentucky with accountability of superintendents, I think maybe they should consider those suggestions.

Fayette County Schools stakeholder survey

The Fayette County Public Schools system is on the hunt for a new superintendent. They have set up a survey for interested parties to share their thoughts about the selection process, what they want to see in a superintendent, and what they currently like about Fayette County Schools.

You can find the survey here! 

Recently the Bluegrass Institute released superintendent hiring tips gathered from lessons learned.  Share your thoughts on the survey!

Lets not reward failure in Kentucky schools anymore!

Children’s Law Center gets better break for learning disabled students in Lexington

Jim Warren at the Herald-Leader reports “Fayette schools try to cut suspension rates for disabled, minorities.”

The district – and a number of others – has much higher suspension rates for minorities and students with learning disabilities. The new agreement involves trying a program to work on the behaviors that lead to these statistics.

Children’s Law Center is now trying to set up similar agreements in other school districts including: Scott, Madison, Jefferson, Boone, Christian, Hardin, Hopkins and Warren counties and Paducah Independent.

Whether this traditional public school application of such an approach will work remains to be seen, but it should be noted that charter schools spend a lot of time on developing better behavior in their students. The results in charter schools are often dramatically better performance.

Monday links: Fayette schools, rewarding failure and Lincoln quote

• Fayette County Schools...didn't make progress on ACT benchmarks?
• Do you care about education accountability in Kentucky?  If you do, you should share this with your state representatives.
• "The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln