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Each Child, Every Child., Richard E. Day
Each Child, Every Child., Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Dr Day was was invited to present at a peer-reviewed international symposium on education reform. This presentation puts the struggle for adequately funded public schools into an historical context, focusing on the Kentucky Supreme Court’s decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education.
Kentucky Coming Late To Battle For Soul Of Charter Schools Movement, Richard E. Day
Kentucky Coming Late To Battle For Soul Of Charter Schools Movement, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Around the time charter schools first began to appear in Minnesota, Kentucky was neck-deep in the Kentucky Education Reform Act, the most sweeping set of school reforms undertaken by any state at any one time. As a result, there was little interest on the part of the legislature, or the press for that matter, in allowing Kentucky schools to veer from the KERA's path. Everybody's hands were full. The new law was already being attacked from the right and supporters worried there might not be enough votes to sustain KERA in 1996. Meanwhile, the Patton administration took the position that …