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Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann Ewalt
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann Ewalt
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This chapter discusses primary- and secondary- education policy in Kentucky and the political and environmental forces that have led to significant policy changes over the years. The primary emphasis of our policy coverage is, first, an analysis of the political decision making that led to sweeping policy changes called for in the 1989 Kentucky Supreme Court decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education and implemented through the subsequent education- reform legislation, the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA).
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Joann Ewalt
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Joann Ewalt
EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship
This chapter discusses primary- and secondary- education policy in Kentucky and the political and environmental forces that have led to significant policy changes over the years. The primary emphasis of our policy coverage is, first, an analysis of the political decision making that led to sweeping policy changes called for in the 1989 Kentucky Supreme Court decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education and implemented through the subsequent education- reform legislation, the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Through these actions Kentucky completely overhauled its school finance system and its curricular and assessment processes. The second emphasis of …