Current Help for Struggling Schools not Enough

At last week's Kentucky Board of Education meeting Commish Jon Draud called for fresh ideas to improve assistance to struggling schools.

"I'm ready to do things that aren't traditional or orthodox," Draud said, mentioning that the current methods for helping struggling schools improve aren't enough.

Some schools getting assistance are given a highly skilled educator to help them improve their scores. They also may be subject to a scholastic audit and may become eligible for special funding set aside for low-performing schools.

Draud suggested that the state board, local school boards and administrators be given more authority to change leadership at a low-performing school. He also advocated that the state board have more power in removing superintendents whose districts have continually failed to perform well on state tests....

This from C-J.