Terry Brooks is the executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates. He spent more than three decades as a public school administrator in Jefferson, Hardin and Oldham counties and at the Anchorage
Independent School District in Kentucky. He also was the lead qualitative researcher for the Governor’s Center of Excellence for the Advancement of Teaching.
The annual national KIDS COUNT Data Book includes more data into which to dive than column inches allow.? But an overview of the report reminds us that Kentucky is not the best place in America to be young.? Or the second-best place. Or the tenth or the 20th or even 30th.? Instead, the 2024 report […]
It’s Spring 2024 in the Bluegrass State. And if I am writing about sports, I should be focused on new basketball coaches and the Derby and the PGA Championship at Valhalla. But as I reflect on the 2024 General Assembly, my mind drifts to football and the 1938 Chicago Bears. That was the team which […]
