{"id":19219,"date":"2022-12-08T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/?p=19049"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:19:10","slug":"big-bold-future-2022-national-rankings-report-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/big-bold-future-2022-national-rankings-report-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bold Future: 2022 National Rankings Report Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680715036639{padding-right: 10% !important;padding-left: 10% !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16021&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;]<b>December 8, 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><br \/>\nFor More Information Contact:<br \/>\n<strong>Brigitte\u202fBlom<\/strong>, President and CEO<br \/>\n(cell) 859-322-8999<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:brigitte@prichardcommittee.org\">brigitte@prichardcommittee.org<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][ultimate_heading main_heading=&#8221;Big Bold Future: 2022 National Rankings Report Released&#8221; main_heading_font_family=&#8221;font_family:Roboto|font_call:Roboto&#8221; main_heading_font_size=&#8221;desktop:32px;&#8221; margin_design_tab_text=&#8221;&#8221; sub_heading_font_size=&#8221;desktop:20px;&#8221;]Prichard Committee Board of Directors Meet, Launch Center for Best Practice &amp; Innovation to Improve Metrics[\/ultimate_heading][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221;]Lexington, KY \u2013\u00a0Out of the quarterly board of director\u2019s meeting Wednesday, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence released the next biannual report on Kentucky\u2019s progress in education. The Big Bold Future National Rankings report was released first in 2020 after a similar report produced by the Committee, Top 20 by 2020, ended.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Bold Future report includes 12 indicators across 4 areas: early childhood, K12 education, postsecondary, and quality of life. They allow Kentuckians to track Kentucky\u2019s outcomes relative to other states, analyze trends over the years, see results for Kentuckians of varied backgrounds, find cause for celebration, and to recognize areas of concern.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Big Bold Future report shows the following rankings for Kentucky in the top 20.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3<sup>rd<\/sup> in high school graduations<\/li>\n<li>6<sup>th<\/sup> in two-year postsecondary graduations<\/li>\n<li>15<sup>th<\/sup> in voter turnout (a proxy for community engagement)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report also shows areas of significant concern where Kentucky\u2019s ranking has fallen in recent years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>29<sup>th<\/sup> in grade 4 reading (KY\u2019s lowest rank since 50 state NAEP participation began)<\/li>\n<li>41<sup>st<\/sup> in grade 8 mathematics<\/li>\n<li>43<sup>rd<\/sup> children above 200% of poverty<\/li>\n<li>38<sup>th<\/sup> preschool participation<\/li>\n<li>41<sup>st<\/sup> postsecondary enrollment<\/li>\n<li>43<sup>rd<\/sup> overall associate degree or higher attainment<\/li>\n<li>44<sup>th<\/sup> median household income<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe expected decline in Kentucky\u2019s rankings coming out of the COVID years, but to be frank, we were seeing declines in these metrics, and sounding the alarm, YEARS before COVID,\u201d said Brigitte Blom,\u00a0President &amp; CEO of the Prichard Committee. \u201cTo return to a place where these metrics are moving in the right direction, we need the General Assembly to follow through in the last year of the Big Bold Ask to realize the additional $1 billion annually invested strategically into education <em><u>and<\/u><\/em> we need local communities galvanized to improve local metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of the Big Bold Future metrics release, the Committee also announced the launch of the <strong><em>Center for Best Practice &amp; Innovation<\/em><\/strong> which is designed to be a hub of people, resources, and data which community leaders across the state can use to improve state and local metrics in education. The Center for Best Practice &amp; Innovation will join the Committee\u2019s existing initiative, the Kentucky Collaborative for Families and Schools, to support and network local community efforts to improve outcomes for students and families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrichard Committee members have taken local action to heart, creating after-school mentoring and tutoring programs, strengthening early learning systems locally, designing reading initiatives, educating students about scholarships and grants for college tuition, the list goes on,\u201d said Blom. \u201cAs we continue to push for improvement in our state, embracing local innovation and entrepreneurial thinking will be necessary to produce stronger and more effective results for students and families, community by community. Each community success story will spark hope \u2014 together they will have far-reaching ripple effects in communities and across the state, ultimately resulting in improvement on the metrics &#8211; and a Big Bold Kentucky Future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full report can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/Big-Bold-Future\">www.prichardcommittee.org\/Big-Bold-Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence<\/strong> is an independent, nonpartisan, citizen-led organization working to improve education in Kentucky \u2013 early childhood through postsecondary.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680715036639{padding-right: 10% !important;padding-left: 10% !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16021&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;]December 8, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More Information Contact: Brigitte\u202fBlom, President and CEO (cell) 859-322-8999 brigitte@prichardcommittee.org[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][ultimate_heading main_heading=&#8221;Big Bold Future: 2022 National Rankings Report Released&#8221; main_heading_font_family=&#8221;font_family:Roboto|font_call:Roboto&#8221; main_heading_font_size=&#8221;desktop:32px;&#8221; margin_design_tab_text=&#8221;&#8221; sub_heading_font_size=&#8221;desktop:20px;&#8221;]Prichard Committee Board of Directors Meet, Launch Center for Best Practice &amp; Innovation to Improve Metrics[\/ultimate_heading][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221;]Lexington,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-press-release"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}