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The Clark County Board of Education's scheduled meeting today with the Kentucky Department of Education has been canceled. The reasons for the cancellation are not immediately clear, but board member Michael McGowan requested the meeting be canceled after being told he could not attend the meeting. Originally, Michael Kuduk and Judy Hicks were invited to meet with members of state agencies to discuss the board's recent vote to halt the district's current facilities plan. Kuduk was invited as board chairman and Hicks as a representative of the board's dissenting vote in the matter.

The Kentucky Department of Education will have a presence at tonight's Clark County Board of Education regular meeting, officials said. Clark County Superintendent Elaine Farris said KDE's Kay Kennedy will attend the meeting. The agenda includes discussion of the renovation of George Rogers Clark High School as an item. The school board voted to delay the merger of middle schools into a renovated GRC building, as those students move into the new high school in August. Conkwright Middle School students will still move into the current high school building, but the rest of the current facilities plan involved with the merger of the county's middle schools will be stalled.

Dear Editor, Kentucky Department of Education will be reviewing with the governor the new state mandated student information system called Infinite Campus. What KDE will not tell the governor is that they did not do their homework. KDE has failed students, educators and taxpayers by showing a total lack of concern. KDE failed parents: They once were able to check their child's grades online but were told that they would have to wait - in some cases eight months - for access.

Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, and after the IJ went to press, Bruce Smith, Lincoln County Board of Education Director of Pupil Personnel, received an email from the Kentucky Department of Education denying the district's request for an additional four days of credit for the school year based on the extended closing of Lincoln school's due to the Ice Storm of 2009. This will mean that students will have to stay in school until June 4 and that the last day of work for employees will be June 5. The district requested the waiver on April 17 and the state was supposed to reply in ten days.

The state has outlined a construction plan for the Kentucky School for the Deaf from 2009 to 2011. April 15, 2009 - Kentucky Department of Education submits Capital Projects Six-Year Plan (2010-2016) to the Capital Advisory Board. July 2009 - The CPAB has a public meeting to review all state agency plans for 2010-2016. October 2009 - KDE submits its Operating and Capital Projects Budget to the Legislative Research Commission and the Governor's Budget Office for the 2010-2012 biennium.

LANCASTER - Garrard County High School will begin in January with a new interim principal, as current Principal Kevin Stull has taken a position with the Kentucky Department of Education.  The Garrard school system and KDE have worked out a memorandum of agreement for up to three years, according to Superintendent Donald Aldridge, who said Stull will be acting as the consultant on the new evaluation system statewide.  The memorandum means,...

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) delivered the results of its survey of Lincoln County School District and Lincoln County High School leadership Friday and posted the results on line. Delivered in separate reports, neither the district report, at 93 pages, nor the 83-page high school report offer much in the way of good news. The evaluation scales ran from a score of 1 for “Little or no development and implementation” to 4 for “Exemplary level of development and implementation,” and in most of the areas evaluated, neither the district or LCHS scored above the lowest two categories.

The State Auditor's Office released a report on the Kentucky Department of Education's attendance audit process. The report, requested by the Department of Education, was prepared in order to assist KDE in ensuring that school attendance audits are being conducted in accordance with KDE guidelines and that the guidelines contain all necessary components for the Average Daily Attendance calculations. The report makes 18 recommendations to improve the process for auditing districts' attendance.

With only a few months left on what has been a very controversial four-year district facilities plan, it’s time for the Clark County Board of education to draw up another one. Districts are required every four years to submit a new facilities plan to the Kentucky Department of Education. The plans are designed to provide for the district’s future needs based on the conditions of the district’s current facilities, its projected enrollment numbers during the next 10 to 15 years and its finances.

BOE to meet with KDE Two members of the Clark County Board of Education will meet with representatives of state agencies at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kentucky Department of Education in Frankfort. The group will discuss the board's decision to halt the district's current facilities plan. Certified food manager's class A certified food manager's class will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 21 at the Clark County Cooperative Extension office. The training will be sponsored by the Clark County Health Department and pre-registration is required.

The Clark County Board of Education's scheduled meeting today with the Kentucky Department of Education has been canceled. The reasons for the cancellation are not immediately clear, but board member Michael McGowan requested the meeting be canceled after being told he could not attend the meeting. Originally, Michael Kuduk and Judy Hicks were invited to meet with members of state agencies to discuss the board's recent vote to halt the district's current facilities plan. Kuduk was invited as board chairman and Hicks as a representative of the board's dissenting vote in the matter.

BOE to meet with KDE Two members of the Clark County Board of Education will meet with representatives of state agencies at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Kentucky Department of Education in Frankfort. The group will discuss the board's decision to halt the district's current facilities plan. Certified food manager's class A certified food manager's class will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 21 at the Clark County Cooperative Extension office. The training will be sponsored by the Clark County Health Department and pre-registration is required.

The Kentucky Department of Education will have a presence at tonight's Clark County Board of Education regular meeting, officials said. Clark County Superintendent Elaine Farris said KDE's Kay Kennedy will attend the meeting. The agenda includes discussion of the renovation of George Rogers Clark High School as an item. The school board voted to delay the merger of middle schools into a renovated GRC building, as those students move into the new high school in August. Conkwright Middle School students will still move into the current high school building, but the rest of the current facilities plan involved with the merger of the county's middle schools will be stalled.

LANCASTER - Garrard County High School will begin in January with a new interim principal, as current Principal Kevin Stull has taken a position with the Kentucky Department of Education.  The Garrard school system and KDE have worked out a memorandum of agreement for up to three years, according to Superintendent Donald Aldridge, who said Stull will be acting as the consultant on the new evaluation system statewide.  The memorandum means,...

The Clark County Board of Education approved a $36 million tentative budget for Fiscal Year 2012-13 Thursday, which includes a 13.9 percent contingency - $5.6 million - well above the state mandated 2 percent contingency. The tentative budget is the second step in developing a working budget for the district. Districts are required to present a draft budget to the board by Jan. 31, with a tentative budget approved and submitted to the Kentucky Department of Education by May 31 and the working, or final, budget submitted to KDE in September.

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) delivered the results of its survey of Lincoln County School District and Lincoln County High School leadership Friday and posted the results on line. Delivered in separate reports, neither the district report, at 93 pages, nor the 83-page high school report offer much in the way of good news. The evaluation scales ran from a score of 1 for “Little or no development and implementation” to 4 for “Exemplary level of development and implementation,” and in most of the areas evaluated, neither the district or LCHS scored above the lowest two categories.

Clark County School Board members Tuesday got their first chance to see what the new George Rogers Clark High School Area Technology Center will look like. Ron Murrell, architect from RossTarrant Architects, presented the design development documents for Phase II, the outer shell, of the new ATC to board members for approval during their regular meeting. The board unanimously approved the documents, the second step in the construction process for the $3 million project. The building will be attached to the back of the new high school, enclosing the courtyard between the two classroom buildings.

STANFORD - Lincoln County High School will face major changes - potentially including the replacement of its principal and 50 percent of faculty and staff - after being named one of the lowest performing schools in the state. The Kentucky Department of Education identified LCHS and 18 other middle and high schools as persistently low achieving and in need of serious overhauls Wednesday. KDE has named a list of PLA schools three times since a 2010 state law requiring it to regularly determine the bottom five or bottom 5 percent - whichever is greater - of low-performing schools in both Title I and non-Title I categories.

With only a few months left on what has been a very controversial four-year district facilities plan, it’s time for the Clark County Board of education to draw up another one. Districts are required every four years to submit a new facilities plan to the Kentucky Department of Education. The plans are designed to provide for the district’s future needs based on the conditions of the district’s current facilities, its projected enrollment numbers during the next 10 to 15 years and its finances.

Clark County Schools officials were notified by the Kentucky Department of Education late last week that the district is one of 13 in the state that have not met their Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals under requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act for the past eight or more years. As a result, the 13 identified districts are in the “corrective action-year 5” category of consequences under NCLB. Schools and districts that are funded by the federal Title I program, designed to ensure disadvantaged children receive opportunities for high-quality education, are subject to federal consequences if they fail to make AYP in the same content area in any student group for two or more consecutive years.