Education

Only six of 29 local schools made Adequate Yearly Progress according to recently released No Child Left Behind data, but they’re in good company. About 90 percent of Kentucky schools didn’t make AYP, according to Mark Kopp, associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction services with Hardin County Schools.

An opportunity for Elizabethtown Independent Schools’ events to be seen by a larger audience comes before the school board tonight.

EIS could vote to allow Kentucky Sports Broadcasting Network to begin live streaming sporting events and other activities in the schools over the Internet. The board was presented with the proposal at Monday’s regular meeting and decided to table the decision until a special meeting at 7 p.m. today.

Elizabethtown Independent Schools’ budget has grown slightly this year from last year, after the district expected a slight downfall in revenue.

Teachers will receive a 1 percent pay raise to the salary schedule in this working budget approved at the school board's regular meeting Monday night.

Managing a school district budget is like a “juggling act” for local superintendents as they deal with state and federal shortfalls.

Superintendents from Elizabethtown Independent Schools, Hardin County Schools and West Point Independent Schools met Tuesday night with the League of Women Voters at the Brown-Pusey House to discuss the impact of state and federal budgets on local school districts. Each spoke of the “juggling act” that preparing a district budget can be and ways they’ve made it work.