Kentucky’s Department of Education will lobby the legislature to fund charter schools, hold back third graders who don’t meet reading standards and take the power to hire school principals away from school-based decision making councils. Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis presented the priorities to the Kentucky Board of Education on Wednesday. The board voted unanimously to sign on to the agenda. State lawmakers passed a charter schools bill in 2017 , but never created a permanent funding mechanism for the independently managed but publicly funded schools.
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