Save Ky’s Education Commissioner
1. Send e-mails & make calls now!
2. Attend the meeting at 1:30pm Today
Today, at 1:30 PM, the Kentucky Board of Education will meet in both open and closed session, to install Governor Bevin’s School Choice appointees to the Kentucky School Board. During this meeting, they will go into closed Session to discuss personnel matters regarding Kentucky Commissioner of Education, Dr. Stephen Pruitt.
Save Our Schools Kentucky anticipates that in this closed session, they will remove Dr. Stephen Pruitt from his position and appoint Dr. Wayne Lewis, Chair of the Kentucky Charter Schools Advisory Council, as an Interim Leader until they find who they believe to be a suitable Education Commissioner to support their School Choice agenda, which Save Our Schools Kentucky believes to be destabilizing to public education in Kentucky.
The only way to stop this from happening is to contact the Kentucky Board of Education members and respectfully ask them to retain Commissioner Pruitt in his current position to provide stability to the Kentucky Department of Education and to continue his dedicated work for Kentucky’s Schools and school children, during a traumatizing fiscal and political climate.
Call and E-mails MUST BE SENT THIS MORNING!
Contact information is as follows (Note: contact information was not available for new appointee Laura Timberlake, as of the time of this post) :
Hal Heiner, former Bevin Education and Workforce Development Cabinet Secretary (Jefferson County)
Capstone Realty
12910 Shelbyville Road, Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40243
e-mail: Hal.Heiner@ky.gov
Bus: 502.254.5001
Amanda Stamper, former Bevin Administration Communications Director (Fayette County)
Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield
e-mail: amanda.esenbock-stamper@anthem.com
Bus: 859-321-7369
Ben Cundiff (Trigg County)
5601 Cerulean Road
Cadiz, KY 42211
Bus: (270) 350-0930
Email: cundifffarms1979@gmail.com
Tracey Cusick (Boone County)
743 Iron Liege Drive
Union, KY 41091
Email: cusick71@yahoo.com
Richard (Rich) Gimmel (Jefferson County)
1508 Sylvan Court
Louisville, KY 40205
Bus: (502) 584-7262
Email: RFGimmel@atlasmachine.com
Kathy Gornik (Fayette County)
4158 Georgetown Road
Lexington, KY 40511
Bus: (859) 492-8521
Home: (859) 233-0011
Email: kathygornik2@gmail.com
Gary Houchens (Warren County)
818 Wakefield Street
Bowling Green, KY 42103
Bus: (270) 745-4999
Email: gary.houchens@wku.edu
Alesa Johnson (Pulaski County)
410 Cave Springs Road
Somerset, KY 42503
Bus: (606) 451-6693
Email: alesag.johnson@gmail.com
Joseph Papalia (Jefferson County)
14604 Golden Leaf Place
Louisville, KY 40245
Bus: (812) 282-0488
Email: jpapalia@dtifilms.com
Milton Seymore (Jefferson County)
2906 Aspendale Court
Louisville, KY 40241
Bus: (502) 931-8525
Email: ceemore1@gmail.com
Go to Kentucky Board of Education Meeting at 1:15pm Today
Kentucky Department of Education Building, 300 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, KY
Make sure to bring a photo ID and wear either Red for Ed or Black for Black Out!
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Just south of Kentucky in Tennessee, Our school just had to suspend testing due to problems at a state level, or so I understand. This is not being reported yet.
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Glad to hear about the testing problems! 🙂
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Others say that the state has claimed it is a hack job. Have not had time to look up the news.
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Link to a news story on it. http://www.wbbjtv.com/2016/02/09/online-testing-malfunction-stops-tn-ready-testing-across-the-state/
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What a coincidence: our governor pulled a nearly identical stunt here in missouri, but everyone’s forgotten about that since he’s now in so much trouble over his former mistress.
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Ms. Koko,
As a fellow Show Me Stater, I don’t recognize what you are referring to. Please explain or link. Gracias.
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Governor Bevin is a vicious, nasty and mendacious piece of “work.”
From the washingtonpost dot com: “Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) apologized Sunday for saying protesting educators exposed some of the “hundreds of thousands” of children to sexual assault and drug use by walking out of class.
“I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today, a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them,” Bevin told reporters Friday evening after teachers swarmed the Capitol by the thousands over a battle to raise education funding in the state.
Amid backlash from state lawmakers and teacher groups, Bevin said his comments were misunderstood by some but were damaging to others.”
He can file his fake apologies in the trash bin; he made scurrilous accusations based on nothing but his own diseased mind. What a disgrace this man is.
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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/04/14/kentucky-governor-claims-that-children-were-raped-used-drugs-while-teachers-protested/?utm_term=.5d500e10d294
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I emailed all the board members and just got a reply back!!! I love it.
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Thanks for reaching out. I voted in support of Dr. Pruitt yesterday. Please see my statement here:
http://schoolleader.typepad.com/school-leader/2018/04/statement-on-the-resignation-of-commissioner-pruitt.html
Gary W. Houchens, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Administration, Leadership, & Research
Western Kentucky University
Member, Kentucky Board of Education
Blog: http://www.schoolleader.typepad.com
Follow me on Twitter: @gary_houchens
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