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Children's Advocacy Day is Coming up!

Kentucky continues to rank in the bottom ten among states for child well-being. Children’s Advocacy Day at the Capitol began in 2004 as an effort to unite advocates from across the state to raise their voices on behalf of children’s safety, health, education and economic well-being...

The Campaign for Educational Equity Releases Substantial and Yet Not Sufficient

The Campaign for Educational Equity released the second report in its Education, Equity, and the Law series, " Substantial and Yet Not Sufficient: Kentucky's Effort to Build Proficiency for Each and Every Child" written by Susan Perkins Weston, independent consultant working on Kentucky education issues, and Robert F. Sexton, executive director of the Prichard Committee.

Spare early-childhood education from cuts

Posted on Sun, Jan. 17, 2010, Lexington Herald-Leader
By Robert F. Sexton

Without question, Kentucky's legislators face a tremendous challenge in producing a balanced budget for the next two years in the face of revenue shortfalls and a continuing economic crisis.

Tidal wave of reform focus of Fall Prichard Committee meeting
'Tidal wave of reform' focus of Fall Prichard Committee meeting

An in-depth look at what Kentucky's new education commissioner has called "a tidal wave of reform" was the focus of the recent fall meeting of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Please see this page for presentations, press releases and photos from the event.

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Prichard Blog Updates

The House Education Committee has reported out House Bill 322 on principal selection. Since I watched on-line, I don't yet have a copy of the substitute language added during the committee meeting, but I"m confident I've got the main idea.Since 1990, Kentucky law has called for school councils to
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My high school math career consisted of three conventionally named courses--Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra 3--and then another course I think was called "A-cubed-T" for advanced analytic algebra and trigonometry. The high school that offered that course would happily have placed me in calculus
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