Phil Rison, assistant superintendent and director of student services for the Montgomery County school district, was recently selected as the president-elect of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA), a national organization for people involved in interscholastic athletic administration at any level. Rison will serve in this position through 2012 and take the helm of NIAAA as the 34th president [...]
More than 63 percent of Kentucky’s public high school 2010 graduates have enrolled in college – the highest percentage on record, the Kentucky P-20 Data Collaborative announced recently. The P-20 Data Collaborative used a comprehensive set of data to calculate the rates, which revealed that of the more than 43,000 public high school graduates in 2010, 63.1 percent enrolled in [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education announced to the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) last month it will participate in the Green Ribbon Schools (GRS) Program.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) invites teachers, administrators, district staff, parents and other education stakeholders to submit questions for Commissioner Terry Holliday's second Twitter Town Hall Thursday, Jan. 19 from 4-5 p.m. ET. The Twitter Town Hall topics will be the 2012 General Assembly and KDE’s legislative agenda. Questions can be tweeted both before Jan. 19 and during the [...]
The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that Kentucky will receive a Race to the Top grant of $17 million to advance targeted K-12 reforms aimed at improving student achievement. Kentucky and six other states — Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — will each receive a share of the $200 million in Race to the Top [...]
Dale Winkler's dual role has him focused on career and technical education as well as college and career readiness.
Kentucky students in grades 6-8 are eligible to participate in the Kentucky Saves Week poster contest sponsored by the Kentucky Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. A winner from each grade level will receive a $50 U.S. savings bond. A selection of student artwork will be displayed during Kentucky Saves Week, Feb. 19-26, 2012. Classes and groups are welcome to [...]
Franklin County teacher brings year-long STEM learning to 5th graders.
Kentucky and Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) again will join many other states and school boards associations in observing January 2012 as School Board Recognition Month. A packet of sample public information items about the observation will be e-mailed by KSBA to all superintendents and members of the Kentucky School Public Relations Association around Dec. 19. The articles also will [...]
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), two of the nation’s leading suicide prevention organizations, have collaborated to produce a toolkit to assist schools in the aftermath of a suicide (or other death) in the school community. Both organizations have often been contacted by schools in the aftermath of a suicide death. Since [...]