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Student attendance has suffered vastly since the pandemic, with the rate of Kentucky students labeled chronically absent jumping to 30% last year from 18% the year prior to the pandemic.. In the ...
The Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) became a law in 1990, and is enforced by the Kentucky Department of Education. [3] KRS 159.010 is a Kentucky law that requires children aged between 6 and 16 to attend school. This law was modified by a 2013 Senate bill, raising the mandatory attendance age to 18 beginning in the 2015–2016 school year. [4]
History of education in Kentucky covers education at all levels from the late 18th century to the early 21st century. The frontier state was slow to build an educational system. In K–12 and higher education, Kentucky consistently has ranked toward the bottom of national rankings in terms of funding, literacy levels, and student performance.
In 1998, The Ford Foundation and Harvard University awarded Kentucky's education system the Innovations in American Government Award. From 1999 to 2006, Kentucky schools showed improvement on the state's CATS assessment in every subject, at every level, for every student group listed in disaggregated data reports. [29]
The Kentucky Department of Education released its 2023-2024 School Report Card data Thursday. The state categorizes each school’s overall indicator score by color — red (1, the lowest), orange ...
Improving early childhood education and teacher compensation are crucial to ensuring bright future for commonwealth
34.9% of Americans over the age of 25 had educational attainment of having a bachelor's degree or higher in 2019. The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%.
At least seven school districts plus a private school in Central and Eastern Kentucky have either moved to remote learning or canceled school on Friday. Some Ky. schools, including one in ...