Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday he has appointed Col. Phillip PJ Burnett Jr. as the Kentucky State Police commissioner.
Burnett, a Bell County native, has served KSP for 25 years and spent the past few months as interim commissioner following Rodney Brewer s resignation in November.
Brewer resigned from KSP amid a controversy over a past training presentation that quoted Adolph Hitler and urged cadets to be ruthless killer(s). The training material was first brought to light by student journalists with the Manual Redeye publication at Louisville s duPont Manual High School. I believe in Commissioner Burnett’s ability to lead KSP into the future,” Beshear said Friday in a news release. He is already working to increase recruitment and create a more diverse workforce, which is crucial to fulfilling our state’s law enforcement duties.
Council: University graduation rates continue to increase
February 3, 2021 GMT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Graduation and retention rates continued to increase at Kentucky’s public universities last year despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Council on Postsecondary Education.
The six-year graduation rate at four-year universities was 56.4% in the 2019-20 school year, the council said Tuesday in a statement. That’s up 1.4% from the previous year and up nearly 6% over the last five years, the statement said.
Graduation rates were also up by 2.4 % last year at the Kentucky Community and Technical College system.
The results were a testament to good leadership on Kentucky campuses last year, Council on Postsecondary Education President Aaron Thompson said.
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The president of the governing organization for Kentucky’s public universities says Governor Beshear’s budget recognizes the far reaching impact of a higher education. Kentucky lawmakers will have the final say on how much state money goes to support the eight state institutions and the community and technical college system.
During his State of the Commonwealth and Budget Speech Governor Beshear said he’s proposing a two percent increase in higher education funding. Council on Postsecondary Education President Aaron Thompson said those dollars could directly affect student learning in the classroom, virtual or in-person.
“Each campus, either through a performance funding pool or general base, would have a chance to start building back some infrastructure that they’ve lost and when I say infrastructure, in many cases I’m talking about human infrastructure,” said Thompson.
Kentucky educators reflect on talking with students about U.S. Capitol riots Billy Kobin, Louisville Courier Journal
Trump supporters riot as they flock to US Capitol and storm building
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Kentucky s education leaders and teachers had plenty to talk about with students after Wednesday s violent riots and storming of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Rioters supporting President Donald Trump broke through police lines and breached the Capitol building in hopes of thwarting President-elect Joe Biden s victory via the certification of the Electoral College by Congress.
On Thursday, Kentucky Education Commissioner Jason Glass said public schools have a critical civic responsibility to prepare students, which means also preparing them to understand and work to resolve the kinds of complex and messy problems citizens ultimately must decide in the United States.