The Kentucky Board of Education met on June 10 and 11, and the meeting was webcast live. The webcast has been archived and may be viewed by clicking below:
6/10/2009 Video:
6/10/2009 Audio Only
6/11/2009 Video
6/11/2009 Audio Only
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Draud eyes textbooks, staff development and tech funds
Education Commissioner Jon Draud held a webcast this afternoon, to keep the state's superintendents well informed on the budget crisis and to allow for suggestions regarding the 09-10 budget, in particular. He indicated that the request for budget reductions for this year came up over the holidays and too quickly to gather input from superintendents before his response was due to the governor.
Draud stated that his objective is "to have the least amount of impact on the school districts and the children of the state that we possibly can have."
"We've been given...two charges...one of them dealing with a 3 percent cut for the 08 fiscal year, and a potential..12 percent cut for...09 and 10," Draud said. "I want to make this very clear. The governor's office has not said that they are reducing SEEK or... any part of education." Draud previously asked superintendents to prepare possible scenarios, but in his opinion, does not anticipate that cutting SEEK will happen.
The cuts for 08 included:
It does make it kind of difficult to provide the kind of service you'd like...
I'm going to repeat that often "because it has been my experience in Frankfort that you have to repeat things a lot of times before people actually internalize it.
As for 09-10 the Commissioner is considering
Draud stated that his objective is "to have the least amount of impact on the school districts and the children of the state that we possibly can have."
"We've been given...two charges...one of them dealing with a 3 percent cut for the 08 fiscal year, and a potential..12 percent cut for...09 and 10," Draud said. "I want to make this very clear. The governor's office has not said that they are reducing SEEK or... any part of education." Draud previously asked superintendents to prepare possible scenarios, but in his opinion, does not anticipate that cutting SEEK will happen.
The cuts for 08 included:
- Teacher Professional Growth Fund - about $10 million
- Part of Read To Achieve - about $1.3 million
- Both had funds that were available and had not been used by the school districts.
- "We also lost $43.8 million of excess SEEK funds. You know, we had some plans. We were going to do some creative things to help our growth districts and districts that were going above 4% in their revenue but that will be...impossible now," Draud said.
- Another 400,000 in restricted funds from agency accounts.
- And $1 million was taken out of the emergency school loan account.
It does make it kind of difficult to provide the kind of service you'd like...
I'm going to repeat that often "because it has been my experience in Frankfort that you have to repeat things a lot of times before people actually internalize it.
As for 09-10 the Commissioner is considering
- delaying textbooks, $21.7 million
- staff development activities $13.6 million
- technology operating fund $10.8
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Webcast to air Kentucky Supreme Court's oral arguments
The Kentucky Supreme Court is going live and online.
The high court started showing oral arguments yesterday through a Web site, joining at least 16 other states in employing the technology. The court estimated it had about 1,700 online viewers for its first Webcast, said Susan Clary, a spokeswoman for the court.
It's gone great. No hitches," Clary said.
Kentucky joins states from Alaska to Florida in Webcasting oral arguments.
"Broadcasting Supreme Court oral arguments live gives every citizen access to our proceedings and an opportunity to see their highest court doing its work," Chief Justice Joseph Lambert said.
To see a Webcast, viewers go to the Supreme Court Web site, www.courts.ky.gov, and click on "Supreme Court LIVE."
Kentucky's high court finally had the technology in place to start Webcasting after studying the idea for several years, Clary said. The court is also looking into having attorneys file court records online, which is similar to what many federal courts require, Clary said.
The University of Kentucky law school is host for the site....
This from the Courier-Journal.
The Kentucky Law Review blog reports:
The high court started showing oral arguments yesterday through a Web site, joining at least 16 other states in employing the technology. The court estimated it had about 1,700 online viewers for its first Webcast, said Susan Clary, a spokeswoman for the court.
It's gone great. No hitches," Clary said.
Kentucky joins states from Alaska to Florida in Webcasting oral arguments.
"Broadcasting Supreme Court oral arguments live gives every citizen access to our proceedings and an opportunity to see their highest court doing its work," Chief Justice Joseph Lambert said.
To see a Webcast, viewers go to the Supreme Court Web site, www.courts.ky.gov, and click on "Supreme Court LIVE."
Kentucky's high court finally had the technology in place to start Webcasting after studying the idea for several years, Clary said. The court is also looking into having attorneys file court records online, which is similar to what many federal courts require, Clary said.
The University of Kentucky law school is host for the site....
This from the Courier-Journal.
The Kentucky Law Review blog reports:
Arguments will be archived and available at the University of Kentucky School of Law's web site for later review and research.
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This is a huge, historical, and monumental step forward in which the justices, the court, and AOC should all be proud and appropriately commended.
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