Kentucky Senator Katie Stine has always impressed us as one of the most informed and intelligent members of the state’s legislature.

She reinforces our impressions again with her new Herald-Leader Op-Ed about the problems with Kentucky’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Sen. Stine co-sponsored Senate Bill 1 from the 2009 Regular Legislative Session. That bill calls for more than we are getting with a Common Core based education program, especially for Kentucky’s higher performing students.

Every Kentucky child should to be able to access all the educational benefits the legislature intended in Senate Bill 1, not just the limited subset of coursework covered by Common Core.

A Kentucky child’s Zip Code should not limit how far that child can go.

And, Sen. Stine’s new Op-Ed shows she understands the problems with Common Core and firmly believes that we need to honor what Senate Bill 1 requires, not an incomplete set of education standards that don’t even come from Kentucky.