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'Race for the Top' in Kentucky: improving education in the region (part three)

Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday
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Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday

By Kate Lochte

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Murray, KY – We've been reporting on what new Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday and other leaders see as the next "tidal wave" of Kentucky Education Reform. Holliday has opined that Kentucky's enactment of Senate Bill 1 positions the state well in Race to the Top competition for new federal stimulus dollars. In the third and final report of this series, Kate Lochte speaks with the chief sponsor of Senate Bill 1, Senator Ken Winters of Murray, about what's ahead in education.