Charter school bill back in spotlight in Kentucky

The Kentucky Enquirer ran a front-page/page A4 article yesterday about a new push to finally get Kentucky into the 21st Century with a charter school bill. There are some great comments from Kentucky State Representative Brad Montell, and they even picked up my comments about the state continuing to leave minorities behind.

From the Enquirer’s online version of the article:

“The problem in Kentucky is we see continuing evidence of disparate performance for our racial minorities, especially African-Americans,” said Richard Innes, education analyst for the Bluegrass Institute. “Blacks aren’t being properly served or identified right now. That’s a huge problem. The regular school system is failing them.”

We’ll be providing more on this problem of kids being left behind shortly, so stay tuned. In the mean time, you can get an idea about this problem by looking at our report, “Blacks Still Falling Through Gaps,” which discusses serious achievement gap problems in the Louisville school system.