Tag: Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

Gov. Andy Beshear kicked off Family Engagement in Education Week at the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort on Nov. 15 by signing a proclamation designating it as a statewide celebration of families and schools.

The  Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, through its Kentucky Collaborative for Families and Schools, has selected 58 Kentucky schools to participate in a peer learning group to increase family engagement as a primary strategy to improve student outcomes in learning.

A group of 45 Kentuckians representing various aspects of the state’s education community have been selected to serve on the Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Education, Education Commissioner Jason E. Glass announced June 1.

Jason E. Glass, commissioner of education, continued soliciting feedback from Kentucky’s education community on a potential January return to in-person instruction during the Dec. 9 virtual meeting of the Kentucky Department of Education’s Parents Advisory Council.

Forty-seven schools have been named Bright Spots in Kentucky Education, recognition for schools in which students performed better than expected on measures of educational achievement.

The Kentucky Department of Education's (KDE) Commissioner's Parents Advisory Council (PAC) heard how schools are preparing for reopening this fall during its June 10 meeting.

Registration is open for the Let’s TALK: Conversations About Effective Teaching conference June 12-13 at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School in Lexington. The conference...

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...

Moving Kentucky into the top tier of states in key areas of education by 2020 will require a hard push for improvement in the...

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,...