Kentucky Educational Television will present “College Financial Aid Call-In 2016,” a live, one-hour special edition of “Education Matters” to offer help in navigating the college financial aid process. The program will air at 9 p.m. ET Jan. 11 on KET and will stream live online at KET.org/live. The program will be hosted by Bill Goodman and will feature a panel [...]
Moving Kentucky into the top tier of states in key areas of education by 2020 will require a hard push for improvement in the next six years, according to a new report from the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. The 2014 update of the Committee’s “Top 20 by 2020” found Kentucky’s performance in six categories to be on track to [...]
Kentucky Board of Education member Brigitte Blom Ramsey has been named associate executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Ramsey succeeds Cindy Heine, who is retiring after 31 years of service with the committee. Ramsey, of Falmouth, has been director of strategic resources and public policy of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati since 2011. She is a [...]
Leaders in education, business and civic causes were among the seven new members named recently to the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Joining the statewide education advocacy group are: Andrew Brennen of Lexington is a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County). Brennen is the committee’s first youth member. He is captain of his school’s speech and debate [...]
Cindy Baumert Cindy Baumert has been named director of the Governor’s Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership (GCIPL), a program of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Baumert is a 2000 graduate of the program, which helps parents become knowledgeable and effective partners in efforts to improve local schools. She also has been a member of the Prichard Committee [...]
At its meeting in Frankfort Wednesday, the Kentucky Board of Education presented the annual Dr. Samuel Robinson Award to the late Robert Sexton, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. The award was accepted by Sexton’s wife, Pam. Since 2004, the Dr. Samuel Robinson Award has been conferred on an individual or groups in Kentucky for outstanding [...]
The Prichard Committee recognized the head of its parent leadership efforts, Bev Raimondo, for 20 years of work for the organization. She was recognized during the group’s June meeting at General Butler State Park in Carrollton. Raimondo joined the Prichard staff in 1991 after a career at IBM. After the passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990, Raimondo [...]
From the Prichard Committee Teachers from school districts across Kentucky shared what they see as revolutionary new teaching strategies and lessons that will strengthen what students know in mathematics and language arts. What started as a pilot program in nine school districts will soon spread across the state – and to other states as well. An audience of 225 state [...]
Veteran educator and community leader Hilma Prather of Somerset recently became the new chair of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Prather, a retired principal from the Somerset Independent school district, is a member of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, KET’s governing board, and has been a member of the Kentucky Board of Education, the advisory board of Somerset [...]
Former Fayette County and Daviess County school superintendent Stu Silberman recently was named as executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Silberman, who announced his retirement in February from Fayette County, is a three-time Kentucky Superintendent of the Year. Silberman succeeds Robert Sexton, the committee’s founding executive director who died in August 2010. Silberman will assume the Prichard [...]