KENTUCKY MAY CHANGE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
New data released this week confirm one of the biggest problems facing Kentucky’s public schools: many high school diplomas earned by students are relatively meaningless.
That’s because thousands of Kentucky students donning caps and gowns each spring don’t actually have the skills they need to succeed — whether their next step involves going to college or getting a job. In fact, though Kentucky has one of the highest graduation rates in the country, nearly 19,000 students in the class of 2018, or 40 percent, left high school without meeting the state’s readiness benchmarks.
