(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- The P-16 Council will meet on Wednesday, June 22, 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 3 p.m. The agenda will focus 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.
AGENDA
Joint State P-16 Council and Local P-16 Network Meeting
June 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
State Board Room
First Floor, 500 Mero Street, Capital Plaza Tower
Frankfort, Kentucky
I. Roll Call
II. Approval of March 23, 2004 Minutes
III. Chair's Report and announcement of newly appointed P-16 Council members -- Dr. Richard Freed, Chair
IV. Action: Election of new Chair
V. Remarks from the Cabinet Secretary -- Virginia Fox, Secretary, Education Cabinet
VI. Roundtable Discussion (Follow-up from March 23, 2005 P-16 Council)
A. Topic 1: Preparing Students to Compete in a 21st Century Economy: Redesigning the Kentucky High School
1. The Power of Rigorous Standards – the Foundation of the System
2. The Relationship of Colleges of Education to the P-16 Council
LUNCH (Reconvene in approximately one hour)
B. Topic 2: Local P-16 Issues
1. Local P-16 Network Report: Discussion of Local P-16 Councils Work Plan and Staffing Guide -- Elizabeth Jefferson, Local P-16 Council Representative
2. Progress Reports of Local P-16 Councils
VII. Adjournment (approximately 3 p.m.)
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