This story originally appeared in the Aug. 23, 2024 edition of the LINK Reader. Matt Baker has seen big changes in Northern Kentucky public education in his six years as superintendent of Walton-Verona Independent Schools. As with all change, some is positive and some is not. A dichotomy has developed in the region, with school […]
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EducateNKY hires Calvo as new CEO, Haggard joins as VP
A local education nonprofit working for change in Northern Kentucky is making a few changes internally. EducateNKY announced Tuesday that its consultant, Cheye Calvo with C Squared Strategies in California, will become the nonprofit’s president and CEO, taking the reins from Tim Hanner, a former Kenton County Schools superintendent who has served as EducateNKY president/CEO […]
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Family engagement in K-12 education: a focus of EducateNKY
School districts in the river cities — and most everywhere else — frequently talk about something called family engagement. It’s more than running for school board or attending school-based decision making council meetings and sporting events. The Kentucky Department of Education calls it “families and school staff work(ing) together to support and improve the learning […]
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Early learning in the river cities: What’s happening, what’s needed?
Covington Independent superintendent Alvin Garrison testified in favor of full state funding for full-day kindergarten, but the state has not yet made it permanent under Kentucky law, and the state has not agreed to fund universal preschool.
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New school, similar to Ignite, discussed for River Cities
Ignite Institute is the only public school of its kind in Northern Kentucky. Students must apply to attend the career-based regional school on the former Toyota campus in Erlanger. Only 250 to 300 new students are admitted each year to learn skills in engineering, biomedical and allied health, design, computer science and education. However, the number […]
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EducateNKY: ‘It’s not just about education’
EducateNKY, a new organization is focused on improving outcomes for all kids and their families by exploring and adopting innovative approaches to pre-K-12 education in Northern Kentucky, and has completed a landscape assessment to begin working on its five priorities: early learning, family engagement, mastery learning, exposure, and out-of-school-time and secondary options.
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EducateNKY announces governing board
EducateNKY has launched its vision to address systemic change in education throughout Northern Kentucky. Created by the OneNKY Alliance and led by recently hired President/CEO Tim Hanner, the start-up nonprofit has established an infrastructure to move forward, including the announcement of its Governing Board: In addition to finalizing its governing board, EducateNKY has taken these […]