On Monday, March 16, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence will host a Facebook Live conversation at 6 p.m. EST about the education impact of COVID-19. Prichard Committee President and CEO Brigitte Blom Ramsey will facilitate a discussion on the impact of closures in all levels of education daycare, K-12 schools, colleges and universities. The event can be found at facebook.com/prichardcommittee.
Prior to joining the staff of the Prichard Committee, I worked for the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) as Chief Communications Officer. This provided me with a familiarity with the powerful work of the department’s education recovery team. I was surprised to learn that Senate Bill 158, filed two weeks ago, would remove KDE from school turnaround, as they are considered a national model in this space.
Within one year of being designated for Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) under Kentucky’s new accountability system, Menifee Elementary School in Frenchburg, Ky., exited the status, and was designated a 3-star school. This progress would not have happened without KDE’s education recovery team.
On January 30, the Prichard Committee sent the following letter to the Kentucky Board of Education requesting that they to reconsider the methodology used for reporting on “statistically and practically significant” achievement gaps in the accountability system and on the School Report Card. The system’s current construct downplays inequities for Kentucky’s poorest and most under-served students
January 29, 2020 Strategic investments still needed in early childhood, K-12 and higher education On Tuesday night, the first step in the state budget…
At the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, we work to engage Kentucky citizens on education issues because we believe informed and empowered citizens will…