Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

Fact Sheet

The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is an independent, nonpartisan group of volunteers dedicated to improving education in Kentucky.
The Prichard Committee receives no government funding. We are funded by foundations, corporations, and individuals in Kentucky and across the country.
We speak out for progress in education, inform the public, legislators, governors, and other education officials, and work with local parents and citizens.
We help to solve problems through public statements, meetings, publications, and recommendations made by task forces of our own volunteer members.
We have commissioned studies by nationally-known experts and worked with education officials and concerned citizens to solve problems.
We inform the public through publications including guidebooks on the primary school, a quarterly newsletter, a monthly newspaper column, and a Web site, www.prichardcommittee.org. We also answer questions on a toll-free telephone line.
We work with local parents and citizens through our regional staff and the Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership. Included are structured but informal conversations involving small groups of parents and teachers called "Parents and Teachers Talking Together."
The committee was founded in 1980 as a 30-member citizen panel to plan for the future of higher education in Kentucky. Three years later, members of this group reorganized into a new, independent organization and dedicated themselves to advocating for improved education for all Kentuckians.

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Phone: 859-233-9849 or 800-928-2111
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