Two Kentucky high schools benefitting from partnership
Knox Central (Knox County) and Leslie County high schools will soon be benefiting from an innovative partnership that hopes to improve the nation's persistently underachieving schools.
Knox Central (Knox County) and Leslie County high schools will soon be benefiting from an innovative partnership that hopes to improve the nation's persistently underachieving schools.
The U.S. Department of Education Doing What Works (DWW) website offers multimedia resources and tools that can provide a framework for building the bridge between research-based literacy practices, teaching strategies and end-of-year outcomes. Resources are available in various content areas targeting various grade levels. As an example, click here for K-3 literacy resources on the Common Core State Standards in [...]
Three Kentucky public schools have been designated as 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education. The three are: Trapp Elementary, Clark County Rosa Parks Elementary, Fayette County Porter Elementary, Johnson County Rock Creek Elementary in Louisville; Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills; St. Henry High in Erlanger; Saint James Catholic Regional School in Elizabethtown; and Seton [...]
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller spent time in Lexington last week as part of a national tour aimed at highlighting notable school programs. Miller visited Picadome Elementary School, where he watched a Japanese language class and praised the Fayette County Schools for offering Spanish, Chinese and Japanese instruction in all grades. The visit was part of the 2012 Education [...]
The FY2012 Promise Neighborhoods Grants support cradle-to-career services designed to improve educational and developmental outcomes for students in our nation’s most distressed urban and rural neighborhoods. The U.S. Department of Education (USED) encourages potential applicants to review the documents on the Promise Neighborhoods Web page to learn more about the planning and implementation competitions. The deadline for submitting a notice [...]
Kentucky, 24 other states and the District of Columbia will share nearly $220 million in School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education. SIG funds provide grants to state educational agencies that are used to assist school districts as they work to raise student achievement in persistently low-achieving (PLA) schools, now designated as Priority Schools through [...]
The U.S. Department of Education has asked Westat to conduct national focus groups to inform the planning of two national meetings on College and Career Ready Standards and Educator Evaluation Systems that will be held in March 2012. Three states -- Florida, Idaho and Kentucky -- have been selected to conduct the focus groups. The findings from the qualitative data collected [...]
The U.S. Department of Education (USED) announced today that Kentucky’s application for flexibility under federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind (ESEA/NCLB) has been approved.
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 [...]
Kentucky, along with other states, has called for greater flexibility in implementing the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, and the U.S. Department of Education (USED) has responded. USED announced recently that President Barack Obama has approved the development of a waiver request process to enable states to ask for flexibility in implementing the requirements of [...]