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June 25, 2021edby

As FAFSA applications lag, CPE approves college tuition costs set by public universities

The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) this week approved campus tuition and fee rates for public colleges and universities for the upcoming 2022 school year. All of Kentucky’s postsecondary institutions stayed under the tuition caps adopted by CPE: No more than 3.0 percent over two years, and a maximum increase of no more than 2.0 percent in any one year, for public research and comprehensive universities.
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April 5, 2021edby

What Does the American Rescue Plan Mean for Education in Kentucky?

Kentucky is expected to receive an estimated $2.4 billion from the American Recovery Plan’s State Fiscal Recovery Fund.  This large pot of money can be used for a broad set of purposes including infrastructure necessary for our future success – like broadband (for which the General Assembly already dedicated $250 million).  Additional funds from the ARP will be distributed to cities and counties directly from the Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.  Kentucky counties are estimated to receive $1.15 billion with Kentucky cities receiving $751.5 million.
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March 30, 2021Uncategorizedby

How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted College Students?

We asked current and prospective Kentucky college students to share how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their education plans and experiences.  Questions were asked of high school seniors, currently and/or recently enrolled college students, and adults not currently enrolled in higher education.  Nearly 1,000 responded in total.
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March 16, 2021edby

Analysis: State Budget Still Coping with Covid-19 – What Does this Mean for Education?

The increases in CAP needs-based financial aid and to postsecondary institutions are a step forward on two of the seven items in the Prichard Committee’s Big Bold Ask. The budget did not strengthen Kentucky’s investment in the other priorities in that Ask: child care assistance, public preschool, fully-funded kindergarten, fully-funded school transportation, and teaching excellence.
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February 22, 2021edby

Data Shows Kentucky Must Act Now to Improve Student Success in the Early Grades

Recent data shows Kentucky going the wrong way to ensuring student success in the early grades. From 2015 to 2019, the percentage of students scoring proficient or above in our KREP reading and math assessments by the end of third grade declined overall, as well as for most student groups – including black, Hispanic and low-income students.
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February 4, 2021edby

Kentucky’s FAFSA Completion Rate is Lagging Prior Year

According to the most recent Kentucky High School Feedback Reports produced by KY STATS, the statewide rate for public high school graduates in 2019 to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was 70%.
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June 17, 2020edby

Defining College Affordability Matters More Now, Than Ever: Part II

What is Affordability? Nothing like restating the obvious question! But we have to start with what students really have to pay. And this is where Kentucky might have a bright spot or two – in case you thought the trends in Part I of this blog were depressing. When we focus only on rising tuition costs, it leaves out other important cost and resource considerations – namely room, board, and other living expenses, as well as resources students get from financial aid. When you combine all this together, you get to the clearer measure of real costs to students – Net Price – the amount left over to be covered by student resources (i.e. savings, student debt, work).
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April 24, 2020Uncategorizedby

Council on Postsecondary Education sets tuition policy

The Council on Postsecondary Education set tuition policy for the next academic year, as well as released the 2020 annual progress report for Kentucky’s public colleges and universities at today’s quarterly meeting. Unsurprisingly, the impact of the COVID-19 public health crisis on Kentucky students and our postsecondary institutions colored much of the discussion. As Kentucky institutions have shifted to on-line learning for the remainder of the spring term, uncertainty remains as to how students and campuses will respond through the summer and into the next academic year. This uncertainty will impact Kentucky’s ability to maintain progress toward educational attainment goals and the types of innovative strategies that will be necessary to ensure student success.
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April 9, 2020edby

Child Care Must Get More Support to Survive Covid-19 – A Call to Action

My wife and I stared blankly at one another last month when Governor Andy Beshear announced that child care providers would close in response to the Covid-10 pandemic. As parents of an infant and preschooler, we had to make quick shifts (like so many families) to handle what has become a daily routine of managing workloads, parenting, diapering, and teaching. Added to that was a new worry. We love our child care center, the teachers and the staff. It is in the neighborhood in which I grew up. We desperately want it to reopen when this public health crisis wanes.
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March 30, 2020edby

UPDATE: What Might Kentucky get for Child Care, K-12, and Higher Ed through CARES Act

Estimates are starting to trickle out as to how education funding in the CARES Act will be distributed to states. For child care, K-12 and higher education, Kentucky estimates include: Child Care – Through the $3.5 billion appropriated through the Child Care Development Block Grant, the Center for Law…
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