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The Kentucky legislature last week took no action on charter school funding for the second year in a row. A member of the Charter School Advisory Council…
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Kentucky’s Department of Education will lobby the legislature to fund charter schools, hold back third graders who don’t meet reading standards and take…
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Union leaders say teachers employed by a Chicago charter school network are staging the first strike at any of the privately run, taxpayer-funded schools…
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In another shakeup of Kentucky’s education leadership, the state board of education has elected charter schools advocate Hal Heiner to be its…
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The new leader of the Kentucky Department of Education laid out his priorities on Wednesday, including the creation of charter schools, improving student…
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Kentucky’s first charter school director is resigning less than a year after he was hired.The Herald Leader reports Earl Simms is resigning so his wife…
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Last week’s upheaval at the Kentucky Board of Education and a possible state takeover of Louisville’s school system have widened the path for charter…
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The opening of charter schools in Kentucky could be delayed if a two-year budget passed this week by the General Assembly is signed by Governor Bevin.The…
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A group of west Kentucky teachers protested the passage of a pension reform bill on the steps of the state capitol building Monday. They said the bill…
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Charter schools might not come to Kentucky this year after all.Last year, Kentucky became the 44th state to make charter schools legal. But the mechanism…