Research
Ending the Status Quo
Kentucky Parents Increasingly Choose Nonpublic Education Options
Data from the Kentucky Department of Education show the number of Kentucky families choosing private schools or deciding to homeschool their children has skyrocketed in the last five years, and accelerated dramatically in the last school year (2021 - 2022).
Exploring Kentucky’s
Private Education Sector
Private schools in Kentucky have at least 6,607 open seats with a projected estimate closer to 19,600 open seats for K-12 students without the construction of additional facilities—the projected capacity of K-12 students is 92,000 total seats.
While Kentucky’s Education System Was Sleeping…
A Bluegrass Institute Policy Point by Richard G. Innes
During the past few years, Kentuckians have heard a lot of claims that the state's public education system used to rank at the bottom of all the states when the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA) was passed but has improved in recent years and now ranks in the "middle of the pack." But is this right?
Using powerful tools available in the NAEP Data Explorer web tool to analyze results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), this paper examines how Kentucky really performed both in the early 1990s and in the most recently available results from 2019.
