By Tiyani Rodrigo Accessible data The federal government disbursed COVID – 19 relief funds to the SEAs through Coronavirus Aid Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) Fund (ESSER I), Coronavirus [...]
Across the Commonwealth, students have two primary opportunities to graduate high school with college credit: dual credit courses or Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Dual credit courses are offered through a partnership between a postsecondary institution and a high school and [...]
Written by: Aaron Butler, Lauren Milam, and Marty Parks When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across Kentucky in 2020, one question rose to the highest priority level: do students have access to the internet at home so we [...]
The reigning wisdom was that remote learning, where students learned fully online at home, was hard on students academically and socially/emotionally during the 2020-21 school year. In this blog post we analyze what that looked like for students in terms [...]
Increasing teacher diversity is one of the 13 strategic goals Commissioner Dr. Jason Glass set to advance student learning across the Commonwealth. The research literature is clear that all students benefit academically and socially from having teachers of color. Studies [...]
By: Lauren Milam, Kentucky Department of Education In August 2021 the New York Times published a piece about the “pandemic exodus” from public schools. In their nationwide study they found that enrollment in schools had dropped, particularly among students in [...]
In Spring 2021 the Kentucky Board of Education charged Commissioner Jason E. Glass with setting ambitious goals to advance student learning across the Commonwealth. So, in coordination with the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) [...]
In 2021, the Office of Teaching and Learning at the Kentucky Department of Education sought answers to two questions: Access: Who has access to advanced placement course offerings? Efficacy: Do advanced placement courses lead to differences in student outcomes? [...]