Welcome to the discussion about P-16 education policy
This blog is an attempt to provide readers with a lively and accessible, but scholarly view of the critical role of P-16 eduction for the future of Kentucky. A healthy and vibrant system of public education from early childhood through the university level, cradle to career, not only impacts the competitiveness of our economy, it impacts our future as a democracy. Thomas Jefferson said "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be." M aintaining the "public" part of our P-16 system is a cause worth defending. From the very beginning, our nation's theory of government has been dependent on education. In looking at more than three centuries of history of US schooling, the main tenant where there is wide agreement is the role that public education plays as a “public good” in promoting and fostering our free and democratic society. Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton did not agree on much regarding the founding o...