A report from the Southern Regional Education Board to the Kentucky Career and Technical Education Task Force emphasized the importance of knowing what Kentucky’s workforce should look like in 10 to 15 years.
Associate Commissioner David Horseman told the Kentucky Career and Technical Education Task Force that finding the best way to share resources should be the top priority in developing a unified system for career and technical education.
In a presentation to the Kentucky Budget Review Subcommittee on Education, Commissioner Wayne Lewis and Associate Commissioner David Horseman called for legislators to create a unified system for delivering quality career and technical education for students in the Commonwealth.
The Kentucky Career and Technical Education Task Force held the first in a series of meetings June 18 that could lead to structural and funding reforms.
A group of education and business and industry representatives has determined the three categories under which Kentucky’s career studies standards will be revised.
The Kentucky Department of Education is developing standards to be used in a new graduation requirement for financial literacy.
KDE officials assured the Interim Joint Committee on Education that feedback from a wide variety of sources is being considered as part of the process of revising Kentucky’s Academic Standards for Social Studies.
Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis told members of the Kentucky Charter School Advisory Council that until the Kentucky General Assembly provides a funding mechanism for charter schools, there is no way that charter applications can be processed by local boards of education.
The short, policy-focused session of the General Assembly ends March 24.
The state budget, pension shortfalls, gambling, and charter schools all expected to be discussed during the 2014 legislative session.