School choice: Kentucky families deserve it

Since the Bluegrass Institute began a decade ago, they have been extolling the virtues of school choice.

From Bluegrass Institute Newsletter:

We said: "Parents deserve a choice so Kentucky's kids have a chance."

We also predicted that the longer parents in other states had choice, the higher the mountain of research indicating school choice provides a better education for our most at-risk kids would grow.

We were right then ... and we are right today. New research indicates growing progress -- especially among the nation's charter schools, as a whole -- among charter schools in providing low-income, minority students with the type of education that will allow them to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and failure that often has dominated their families for generations.

Beginning Sunday, the institute will celebrate National School Choice Week by calling attention to the successes of charter schools around the nation. We also will release a seven-part video series taken from a recent interview with Billy Harper, a former gubernatorial candidate and member of the Kentucky Board of Education, who is committed to improving our state's public schools.

Contact your legislator today and simply tell them: We want charter schools in Kentucky.

To contact your legislator, call toll-free (800) 372-7181. You do not have to have to know the name of your legislator. You only need to give your name, address and question. It will then be forwarded to those legislators that represent your area of Kentucky.

Learn more and visit BIPPS at http://www.bipps.org/post-lead-education-reform/





January 28 2013 – Education forum in Louisville

More information at http://louisville912.com/2013/01/21/january-28-2013-education-forum/

This month’s Louisville 9/12 meeting will be an education forum in which we will ask the participants two questions: 1. What is a good education? 2. How do we get there from here?

Confirmed panelists are Jim Waters, John Kemper, and Tomas Mauricio.

There is general consensus that our education system is broken, but what can we do to try to fix it? The first step, which is missing from most discussions, is to determine what is a good education. If we don’t know what our goal is, we have little chance of reaching it.

Once we have a good idea of our goal, we will consider options for how we might try to get there.

We are hopeful that, by approaching the education issue from the perspective of having the end in mind, we will come up with some new ideas and will see what role we, as parents, grandparents, and citizens, can play in the process.

The public is welcome to attend. The forum will be at the J-town library, January 28, 2013, 7-8:30 pm.