It is such a contrast. At the last stop in my public school career, I led a campus with a high school, a middle school, and two elementary schools. It was a rare opportunity as some of those were brand new places, and we had the chance to truly create the culture. At the campus, we had a school resource officer - a law enforcement officer working in the school. Though SROs are expressly prohibited [...]

The directions clearly stated, “Color the triangles blue.” Then why in the world did Karson—one of our five-year-old twin granddaughters—leave the triangles blank and color the rectangles red? I mean, my wife (a retired master elementary teacher), her parents, and even her grandpa have been getting her “ready to learn when entering kindergarten” since some six months before birth. Was she going to be doomed to wherever Kentucky kids not ready for kindergarten go? Our [...]

This post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Courier-Journal on April 17th. Read it online here. We are pleased to report that, prior to its publication, Senator Rand Paul joined members of the Senate HELP Committee in unanimous support of a bipartisan amendment to improve and expand early learning programs. For more information about the the amendment, see a statement from the First Five Years Fund. We thank Senator Paul for supporting early learning and ask Senator McConnell to [...]