Thursday, December 10, 2009
Ky. Education Board Readies For General Assembly
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky law allows the state education commissioner to seek the removal of local school officials for such things as misconduct, incompetency or wilful neglect of duty. In preparation of the 2010 General Assembly, Thursday, the Kentucky Board of Education approved a concept to add chronic low student academic performance to the list of causes for removal. Education officials believe authority to remove local education leaders would provide more accountability for poor performance, and they say the idea is in line with federal school-improvement initiatives like the Race to The Top grant program. A proposal to expand Kentucky's pre-school program to include children in families with incomes of up to 200% of federal poverty level and a proposal to raise Kentucky's compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18 by the 2011-2012 are also on the board's 2010 legislative agenda.
Kentucky law allows the state education commissioner to seek the removal of local school officials for such things as misconduct, incompetency or wilful neglect of duty. In preparation of the 2010 General Assembly, Thursday, the Kentucky Board of Education approved a concept to add chronic low student academic performance to the list of causes for removal. Education officials believe authority to remove local education leaders would provide more accountability for poor performance, and they say the idea is in line with federal school-improvement initiatives like the Race to The Top grant program. A proposal to expand Kentucky's pre-school program to include children in families with incomes of up to 200% of federal poverty level and a proposal to raise Kentucky's compulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18 by the 2011-2012 are also on the board's 2010 legislative agenda.
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