tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post7399232759651514030..comments2023-11-03T04:00:24.785-04:00Comments on Kentucky School News and Commentary: Kentucky School Districts Receive EduJobs AllocationsRichard Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-69935359972205343052010-09-23T09:30:42.807-04:002010-09-23T09:30:42.807-04:00Hummm. I don't know what you mean by "no...Hummm. I don't know what you mean by "not getting posted at all" but I have only deleted one item in recent memory.<br /><br />What you may very well be seeing is some difficulty I have posting as much as I would like. This is simply due to the press of other business. Since I am now a tenure-track professor I have had to shift much of my attention to scholarly writing. I don't talk a lot about it on the blog (yes, I know I'm supposed to) but I've been preparing articles and presentations more and more this past year and it has put a big dent into my investigation/ blogging time. <br /><br />I did receive a grant which will afford me a research assistant this year. That might help...some.<br /><br />It is not uncommon for me to collect information in a blog post which gets edited into a post later as more information is gathered. I am presently doing that with a piece on EduJobs. But you can't see those....so I'm not sure what you're seeing.<br /><br />But nothing should be disappearing.Richard Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-27755994116440661772010-09-22T18:39:26.133-04:002010-09-22T18:39:26.133-04:00I noticed a new trend. Posts are disappearing or t...I noticed a new trend. Posts are disappearing or they are not getting posted at all. There was a recent post about FCPS and unspent stimulus money. It has since disappeared from the discussion board,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-62499425619534498882010-09-22T07:42:11.583-04:002010-09-22T07:42:11.583-04:00Using SEEK to distribute funds makes it proportion...Using SEEK to distribute funds makes it proportional to the number of students in a given district - so, roughly, per pupil. <br /><br />Thanks for your observations on the FCPS board races. I did not attend.Richard Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586435007687942849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776587.post-20851807946230388642010-09-21T21:56:33.283-04:002010-09-21T21:56:33.283-04:00Richard,
Thanks for the info. How did they divid...Richard,<br /><br />Thanks for the info. How did they divide the money? I somehow missed that part.<br /><br />Also, did you attend the public forum for the Fayette County School Board Candidates? I just was curious as to your thoughts. My thoughts: I thought Ferguson and Queen both did equally well. I thought Ferguson had a little bit better handle on the questions than Queen did, probably from her experience on the Board. Queen came out opposed to charter schools. His comment about Henry Clay HS being overcrowded also surprised me some. They were both good, but I'd keep Ferguson if I had a vote.<br /><br />In the second forum (which is the one I went to see), I thought Barnett was the best candidate by far. He did a really good job of hammering home and supporting his points about school performance, closing the achievement gap, and getting the board out of IAKSS and into the community. Two of his ideas stood out: rotating board meetings to the schools in each election district to increase the visibility of the board and expaning Meadowthorpe's school supply program to every school in the county. You could tell he did his homework on the issues and he had some memorable lines. He said something like the code of our civic humanity was to make sure our kids had better opportunities than the previous generation. I was blown away at that comment!<br /><br />Thomas Duncan hammered home the fact that he was a lifetime 2nd District resident. He pointed out Tinsley and Barnett moved into the district (he made a crack that he had been living there the longest and Barnett hadn't even been born. Barnett responded that he was hoping to keep age from being an issue in the campaign. Pretty funny.) Duncan made some good points about law enforcement needed support and about having defined standards for achievement, but then followed that up with demanding the firing of the principal at BSHS. Duncan said that he only cared about schools located in the 2nd District. I found that alarming.<br /><br />I thought Tinsley had a bad night. I thought his best moment was at the beginning when he thanked Barnett for saying that his opening statement described what he did on the board every day, i.e. spoke on behalf of the kids. Then he said that the 2nd District schools were doing great, but had to change that to we can't improve them overnight after Barnett and Duncan (mostly Barnett) presented some stats. At the end, Tinsley called both Duncan and Barnett "no shows" at school board meetings and events. Barnett then reminded him that he was present and spoke up at the February redistricting forum while Tinsely was not there. That pretty much summed up the night for him. <br /><br />Just my take.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com