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Task Force Information | Task Force Members | Contact Information | MSA Resource Websites
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Task Force InformationThe Hardin County School District has been identified by the Kentucky Department of Education as a Minority Student Achievement District. There are seven districts in the state that have been identified as districts having the highest minority populations. These districts include - Bardstown Independent, Christian County, Fayette County, Hardin County, Jefferson County, Owensboro Independent and Paducah Independent. In the 2001-2002 school year, these districts were brought together to look at what was going on in these districts to work on improving minority student achievement. Initially, these school districts reported to KDE regarding their activities to improve minority student achievement. The efforts in the Hardin County Schools centered around the literacy initiative implemented by then superintendent - Lois Gray. These initiatives were expanded during the 2002-2003 school year by forming a group of teachers to attend vertical team alignment training in the summer of 2003 at Western Kentucky University. This group of five teachers from schools having high minority populations provided training in the district on language arts vertical team alignment during the spring semester of 2004. The Minority Student Achievement Task Force is an outgrowth of the efforts mentioned above. The group began meeting in June 2005 and met periodically during the 2005-2006 school year. The group reviewed CATS and NCLB assessment data to determine areas of concern among minority student achievement in the district. The task force members then met with a consultant from KDE to look at what high achieving schools are doing in Kentucky to improve minority student achievement. The task force was then divided into ad hoc committees to address and investigate resources for each of the minority areas identified.; These areas include - gender, special education/disabilities, ethnicity, economic and English as a Second a Language. Resources for each of these areas can be found by clicking on the link buttons in the side bar on the page. |
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For questions or comments on this web site please contact: Diana.Jacobi@Hardin.kyschools.us, Hardin County Schools 65 W. A. Jenkins Rd. Elizabethtown, KY 270-769-8861 |
