By Gabe Bullard
Louisville, KY – The Kentucky Board of Education is preparing to change regulations surrounding school assessment procedures.
The board met this week to discuss the 2009 Senate Bill One. The law takes effect in the fall and it changes testing and evaluation standards for schools. Spokesperson Lisa Gross says the board must rewrite many statutes and regulations to reflect the changes. Among other things, the board is considering how to rate schools based on how well they prepare students for college or a career.
Gross says another concern is how to summarize and publish the evaluations.
"How do we present this information so that anyone could look at a document or some sort of posting on a website and say 'Oh, that school is performing at high levels. That school has made good progress.'?"
Gross says the board will likely act in April to change the regulations. The board also spent part of its meeting discussing education bills making their way in the general assembly. Gross says that conversation centered on legislation that would raise the dropout age from 16 to 18.