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Dr. Gary Houchens

Mar 25, 2024
4 min

COVID-19 and P-12 Education in Kentucky, Explained

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has impacted every sector of life in Kentucky. For families who have students in, or who work in, P-12 education, the closure of schools has presented a unique set of challenges. How will students learn, and how will education policy shift as a result? The following post summarizes what has happened so far and what this means for P-12 students, parents, and educators moving forward. Schools close, move to “non-traditional instruction” In early

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Dasha Kolyaskina

Jul 16, 2024
4 min

A Look Back at JCPS Testing Performance

The Kentucky Department of Education is phasing out its accountability standards and scores that have been in place for over a decade. The new standards will take effect for the 2018-2019 K-PREP test scores. The last year that KDE assigned and released accountability scores for schools and school districts was the 2016 school year. Even though the state will soon be operating under new standards, the last year of results under the old standards reveal areas of concern in the

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Dasha Kolyaskina

May 9, 2024
2 min

Lowest K-12 Achievement Scores in Louisville are West of 3rd Street and South of Watterson Expresswa

Every year, the Kentucky Department of Education releases report cards to assess the performance of the schools and school districts in the state. The report cards summarize data on the standing of a school or district in assessment, finance, delivery targets, and other related metrics. Each school is given an achievement score on a hundred-point scale. The achievement score takes into account the school’s reading and mathematics scores on the Kentucky Performance Rating for

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Feb 3, 2024
2 min

Five Bills We Are Watching in the General Assembly

After a packed first week followed by several weeks off, the Kentucky General Assembly will return on Tuesday for the remainder of this short, odd year session. Of the bills that have been filled, or are going to be filled, these are five that we are watching*. 1) HB 103- Charter School Legislation: Several interesting and important debates will unfold over the remainder of this session, but none are more intriguing than the charter school legislation. The number of authorize

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