U.S. Department of Education

Doing What Works website available

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 [...]

By |2012-11-21T11:12:18-05:00November 22, 2012|

Three public schools earn Blue Ribbon honors

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 [...]

By |2012-10-16T09:03:31-04:00October 18, 2012|

World language focus of U.S. Department of Education visit

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 [...]

By |2012-09-27T09:27:00-04:00September 27, 2012|

Promise Neighborhoods grants available

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 [...]

By |2012-05-30T14:41:46-04:00May 31, 2012|

Kentucky receives additional school improvement grant funding

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 [...]

By |2012-03-19T09:48:13-04:00March 20, 2012|

Kentucky Selected as Participant for National Focus Group

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 [...]

By |2012-02-14T09:58:40-05:00February 16, 2012|

Kentucky granted NCLB flexibility request

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.

By |2019-02-12T15:50:12-05:00February 9, 2012|

Kentucky awarded $17 million in federal Race to the Top funding

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 [...]

By |2011-12-27T10:22:46-05:00December 27, 2011|

USED responds to Kentucky’s call for NCLB flexibility

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 [...]

By |2020-10-14T10:13:20-04:00August 11, 2011|
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