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Gov. Andy Beshear has been the public face of efforts to get raises for Kentucky teachers. Attorney General Daniel Cameron has accused the governor of advocating for a “woke” agenda in KY schools.
Education reform has been a topic for Kentucky government officials and citizens for over 20 years. The most significant piece of reform legislation was passed in 1990, and was known as the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). This act instituted six basic initiatives, some of the most important being a focus on core subjects, community ...
But state Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Louisville, told forum attendees that issues are connected — small legislative changes on topics like education and the budget can affect millions of people, and it ...
The vocational schools became controlled, like other public schools in the state, by the Department of Education in 1962. [1] The Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) became a law in 1990, and is enforced by the Kentucky Department of Education. [3] KRS 159.010 is a Kentucky law that requires
In late 2022, the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 2021 bill that would have created a privately funded needs-based assistance program to cover educational expenses for families ...
The Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program (GSP) was established in 1983 by Kentucky leaders to keep its "best and brightest" interested in furthering education and potentially starting a career in the Commonwealth instead of traveling out of the state to do so. It is a five-week summer program for rising high school seniors.
An outcome of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 was the creation of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). CPE exists to foster the success of Kentucky's public and private universities and technical colleges by enacting education legislation, conducting university research, training educators and more.
Finally, after much lobbying and petitioning by KERA and other women's clubs, the legislature passed a law in 1912 that gave "qualified" women the right to vote and run for office in the new county school system. This law was tested in the courts and stood, allowing for state protection of the right for black and white women citizens to vote.