Moberly offers Senate Bill 1 a Good Rest

Education reform set to stall

House Democrats have no plans to hear bill

FRANKFORT --After the Republican-led Senate approved a bill Friday along party lines that would replace the state's student testing system, a key House member said the measure likely will die in the Democratic-controlled House.

House budget chairman Harry Moberly Jr., D-Richmond, said he hopes he will get Senate Bill 1 in his committee.

If so, "it would have a good rest in my committee for many years," Moberly said.

Moberly joins Gov. Steve Beshear and House Speaker Jody Richards in opposing the measure that calls for replacing the Commonwealth Accountability Testing system and its open-response questions and portfolios with nationally normed multiple-choice tests. Beshear has said he would veto the measure if it passes both chambers.

But advocates of the bill sponsored by Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, argue that teachers spend too much time preparing for the test that was a key part of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act...

This from the Herald-Leader.