2013 January Advocate Homepage

Green rebuild
The Jessamine County school system hopes to be the first in the state to have a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified existing building. A host of green building groups are pitching in to make it happen.

Let’s celebrate
January is School Board Recognition Month, and it’s also the month most of the 140-some newly elected school board members in Kentucky will be taking the oath of office.  With a new accountability system, tough new testing and state audits, do they just like a challenge – or what?

After-school appetite
When students at Erlanger-Elsmere Independent’s Tichenor Middle School arrive at their after-school program each day, the first question may not be, “Do I have to do my homework?” or “What activities can we do?” Instead, it’s just as likely to be “What’s for dinner?”

KSBA Winter Symposium
Hijacked
Charter schools originally were a good idea, Dr. Gary Miron told school board members and others at KSBA’s Winter Symposium. The end product: not so good. Miron presented the latest studies on charter schools, chipping away at the once-idealistic picture.

Oversight addition
The finance training at this year’s Winter Symposium broke in some new material in response to several less-than-flattering school district audits by the state auditor’s office. The big message: oversight, oversight, oversight.