By KPR
Frankfort, KY – The annual state of the commonwealth address is typically not a speech full of new proposals. That was the case with Governor Beshear's speech last night before a joint session of the general assembly. Beshear did hit on a couple of education related initiatives. He said he favors raising the legal drop out age to 18. Former House budget and education committee chair Harry Moberly says schools would need two to three years to ramp up for such a change...
"Give resources to those programs that will be needed to deal with those students which would be I think more money for alternative schools more intervention attention, that sort of thing but I don believe it's the right sort of thing to do we just need to do it in the appropriate way."
Beshear called for a more seamless system for the transfer of credits from the community and technical college system and other universities. Moberly says that's something lawmakers hoped would be accomplished through higher ed reforms back in 1997. He says more work still remains today.