Kentucky Department of Education

 

P-16 COUNCIL TO MEET

Last Updated on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 5:17 AM

News Advisory 05-012 -- March 21, 2005

            (FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- The P-16 Council will meet Wednesday, March 23, in the State Board Room of the Capital Plaza Tower in Frankfort.

            The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. The primary agenda item is a roundtable discussion on redesigning high schools.

            The P-16 Council is made up of representatives from the Kentucky Board of Education and the Commissioner of Education, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and the council president, the Education Professional Standards Board and other state agencies. Created in 1999, the P-16 Council advises the Kentucky Board of Education and the Council on Postsecondary Education on the education of teachers, the alignment of competency standards and the elimination of barriers impeding student transition from preschool through the baccalaureate.

            A meeting agenda follows.

 

                                      KENTUCKY P-16 COUNCIL

March 23, 2005

9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

State Board Room

First Floor, 500 Mero Street, Capital Plaza Tower

Frankfort, Kentucky

 

AGENDA

 

I. Roll Call

II. Approval of December 14, 2005 Minutes

III. Report from Local P-16 Councils

IV. Roundtable Discussion: Preparing Students to Compete in a 21st Century Economy: Redesigning the Kentucky High School

Featured speakers: Mike Cohen, President, Achieve Inc./Kati Haycock, Director, The Education Trust

V. Next Steps

VI. Adjournment

Next meeting:  Wednesday, June 22, 2005

 

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For more information contact:

Lisa Gross
500 Mero Street, 6th Floor CPT
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 564-2000
Lisa.Gross@education.ky.gov