By Angela Hatton
Murray, KY – Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday has sent a letter to top lawmakers, urging them not to slow implementation of Senate Bill 1. The Kentucky legislature voted in the education reform measure in 2009. Holliday says some educators are asking legislators to put implementation on hold because of funding concerns. Senate Education Committee Chairman Ken Winters says new standards for math and language arts are on track to go into effect this year, but other aspects may be delayed.
"The development of some of the other curricular areas, like social sciences, and the sciences and so forth, could indeed with the development of the new common core standards may in fact cause us to run a year behind what we had planned for them."
Those courses were already staggered a year behind in implementation. Winters says it may now be two years. He says the problem is not money, but that development work is taking longer than anticipated.