Tuesday
Jul212009
Edjurist TV Episode 6: Kentucky School Finance History
Justin Bathon on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 5:44PM I was asked to present this morning on the history of Kentucky School Finance, the Rose v. Council for Better Education case, and the Kentucky Education Refom Act here at UK. So, below is the presentation in Episode 6 of Edjurist TV. It is narration over a Prezi.
Sources:
William H. Hoyt, An Evaluation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act
Debra H. Dawahare, Public School Reform: Kentucky's Solution, 27 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 27 (2004).
Reader Comments (3)
Justin,
This is a terrific learning tool. ...well conceived and nicely done. I hope you'll submit it to CPE's Learning Depot as a learning object. I'll give it a shout out on Kentucky School News & Commentary.
A couple of comments:
The number of CBE school districts at the time the case was filed was actually 60 according to the council's own records. CBE kept saying 66 because that represented the number at which Bert Combs agreed to represent.*
During the video, I found myself hoping you would segue into a brief treatment of The Rollback Law and it's impact school funding. Any chance of another video on that?
Finally, separation of powers was a significant issue in both the (unconstitutional) Corns Committee and the Young case. A good exploration of that topic would also be valuable to CBE and other educators.
Thanks for the post.
Richard
* Day, Richard E., Each Child, Every Child: The Story of the Council for Better Education, Equity and Adequacy in Kentucky’s Schools, Ed. D. diss., University of Kentucky, 2003
Thanks Richard for the comments. You can consider this a first draft. I had to prep it for a lecture I was giving undergrads, so I limited how much detail I went into. I didn't go into a ton of detail on the decision, including the separation of powers issues, for instance - even though perhaps I should have. But, thanks for the thoughts. I knew of your dissertation and actually referenced it in some stuff I sent ELA.
In reference to Rose, I am sending you a personal e-mail to talk about that case a little more as it is the 20th Anniversary and UK is going to do a little celebration symposium coming up that I wouldn't mind getting your thoughts on.
Good Lord. How time flies.
I'm happy to help out any way I can. I hadn't see prezi before. Very cool.
I look forward to hearing from you and hope yo are enjoying UK. Go Cats.