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The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has released annual School Report Card data from the 2021-2022 academic year. The most recent data highlights assessments from more than 383,000 students ...
In the 2018–19 school year there were 648,369 students enrolled at 1,466 Kentucky public schools, which employed a total of 42,024 public school teachers. [17] For the same academic year, approximately 19,634 students were homeschooled.
The data source for the main list is the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey in 2021. [1] The data source for the territories table is from 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data, because those territories are excluded from the American Community Survey.
History of education in Kentucky covers education at all levels from the late 18th century to the early 21st century. The frontier state was slow to build an educational system. In K–12 and higher education, Kentucky consistently has ranked toward the bottom of national rankings in terms of funding, literacy levels, and student performance.
We surveyed teachers nationally at the end of the last school year and found that Kentucky teachers have average mental health and morale compared to the rest of the United States.
The average gap increased to 21 points by 8th grade and widened to 24 points by senior year in high school. [9] In the more recent 2007 National Assessment of Writing Skills, female students continued to score higher than male students, though margins closed slightly from previous assessments.
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 children aged between 6 and 16 to attend school. This law was modified by a 2013 Senate bill, raising the mandatory attendance age to 18 beginning in the 2015–2016 school year. [4]
A bill aimed at preventing Kentucky students from being sexually abused by teachers was introduced last week by the House Education Committee chairman.