“Groundbreaking” Work in Kentucky
Rachel Belin represents the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, a non-profit organization that has played a key-role in the improvement of education in Kentucky.
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The Student Voice Team is fast becoming the institutionalized pride of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an independent nonprofit that mobilizes citizens to push for improved Kentucky public schools, and students have everything to do with it. Since the beginning of the last school year, a team of 13 Central Kentucky students built the case for why, after 30 years of successful advocacy, the Prichard Committee needed to consider integrating students into its education advocacy efforts.
As part of this organic initiative, the Student Voice Team has reached out to policymakers, attended hearings on measuring teacher effectiveness, facilitated roundtable discussions with other students about Kentucky’s rankings on national student achievement assessments and published an op-ed in local and national media outlets exploring the potential of incorporating student perspectives into teacher evaluations. Their first year of work culminated in a 45-minute presentation to the hundred plus members of the Prichard Committee at its spring meeting, a statewide gathering of Kentucky’s most active education civic and business leaders, at which the Student Voice Team elicited a standing ovation and a solemn promise from the board to formally
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