Kentucky Education…Ranks 10th

According to the Education Week magazine published Thursday, Kentucky has climbed to 10th place nationally in the 2013 Quality Counts survey of states' education performance. Kentucky has jumped 24 places in the Quality Counts annual report over the past two years. The state ranked 34th in 2010 and climbed to 14th last year. Maryland ranked first in the 2013 survey for the fifth straight year. Recent Kentucky advances include the General Assembly's passage of Senate Bill 1 in 2009, which revamped the state student-testing system, and the adoption of tough new common core content standards in 2010.