Ashley Spalding

How Would the Performance Funding Proposal Impact Low-Income, Minority and Academically Underprepared Students?

We have previously written about how while a performance model could potentially promote success for all Kentucky students, depending on...

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What’s In the Criminal Justice Reform Bill, and What’s Not

Senate Bill 120, the bill coming out of the state’s Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council (CJPAC), proposes some positive steps to address barriers to successful reentry often experienced by former...

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Harsher Criminal Penalties Not a Proven Way to Address Heroin Problem

We all want to see Kentucky address its devastating drug problems. The issue touches individuals and families from all walks of life across Kentucky, and too many of us have...

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Would Charter School Proposal Negatively Impact Funding of Kentucky’s Existing Public Schools?

One of the key questions about how charter school legislation would change education in Kentucky is how it would affect funding for traditional public schools. Looking at what has occurred in...

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Mix of Criminal Justice Bills So Far in 2017 General Assembly

With Kentucky’s growing inmate population and high rates of recidivism, what we need in 2017 is legislation that will make these problems better, not worse. The criminal justice bills filed...

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How Criminal Justice Reform Would Help Kentucky Kids

Criminal justice reform is important not just for adults but also for children, as highlighted in a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). This link is especially relevant...

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Kentucky’s Repeat Offender Laws Need Reform

Last week Kentucky’s Public Advocate Ed Monahan testified to the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary that the state needs to reform its Persistent Felony Offender (PFO) laws. This is also...

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Kentucky’s Performance Funding Design Should Work to Prevent Unintended Consequences Reported in Neighboring States

A new book by leading education policy researchers highlights some of the unintended consequences resulting from performance funding for higher education in three of Kentucky’s neighboring states — Indiana, Ohio...

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Roundup on Kentucky’s Criminal Justice Reform Needs and Options

Kentucky’s criminal justice issues have been in the news recently. The majority of Kentucky’s full-service jails are at or over capacity, and the state is considering reopening private prisons as...

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Promising Reform Options Being Considered by Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council

The state’s Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council (CJPAC) is developing ideas in the areas of drug policy, prevention, jail reform, penal code reform, reentry, recidivism reduction, and probation and parole...

How Would the Performance Funding Proposal Impact Low-Income, Minority and Academically Underprepared Students?

What’s In the Criminal Justice Reform Bill, and What’s Not

Harsher Criminal Penalties Not a Proven Way to Address Heroin Problem

Would Charter School Proposal Negatively Impact Funding of Kentucky’s Existing Public Schools?

Mix of Criminal Justice Bills So Far in 2017 General Assembly

How Criminal Justice Reform Would Help Kentucky Kids

Kentucky’s Repeat Offender Laws Need Reform

Kentucky’s Performance Funding Design Should Work to Prevent Unintended Consequences Reported in Neighboring States

Roundup on Kentucky’s Criminal Justice Reform Needs and Options

Promising Reform Options Being Considered by Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council

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