Does offering parents the option of sending their children to public charter schools or providing them with scholarships to assist with private school tuition harm public education?
Kentucky legislators should mirror President Joe Bidenâs determination to reopen public schools and get kids back into classrooms.
They should not be wasting effort on legislation encouraging local districts to bow to pressure from teachersâ unions to keep public school doors locked while continuing the increasingly unpopular online fiasco known as nontraditional instruction (NTI).
House Bill 208 (HB 208) recently passed by the House Education Committee is an example of such poor legislation.
This bill allows school districts to receive Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) funds â the state portion of funding for each public school student â based on attendance figures from as far back as the 2018-19 academic year even though thousands of students in these districts havenât seen the inside of a classroom since March due to Gov. Andy Beshearâs unending stream of executive orders related to COVID-19.
(The Center Square) – Kentucky’s business community is calling for an increase in the state’s gas tax to boost essential infrastructure across the state. However, it appears the push is
In one sense, Rep. Ed Massey’s bill to create a new tier within the Teachers’ Retirement System represents a substantial change in Kentucky’s pension system — but only for new
(OpEd By Jim Waters, who is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s free-market think tank. Read previous columns at www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com and @bipps on Twitter.)
When Amber, my server at a central Kentucky restaurant where I stopped to work and get some breakfast recently, saw my computer open to the petition on change.org labeled in big, bold letters: “The Impeachment of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear,” she immediately asked: “Are they going to impeach the governor?”
I explained that it was a petition started by citizens frustrated with Beshear’s flood of executive orders locking down the state, including two stretches of prohibiting indoor dining and shutting down both bars and churches while allowing big box retailers, grocery stores, liquor establishments and even abortion clinics to remain open.