For 36 years, Kentucky's school-based decision making (SBDM) councils have given teachers, parents and principals shared authority over school matters. A new bill, SB 152, aims to change the councils' ...

While no consequential research on Site-Based Decision Making (SBDM) councils has been conducted since former University of Kentucky professor Jane Clark Lindle’s analysis 16 years ago, evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — The way decisions are made in Kentucky’s local school systems could change under a proposal moving right ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) – Legislation that would strip all school-based councils in Kentucky of the authority to hire their schools' principals passed the Senate State and Local Government Committee on ...

Despite significant opposition, the Senate Education Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would eliminate school-based decision-making councils in Kentucky. SBDM councils, as they are commonly ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – After facing backlash for a dress code policy, Butler High School Principal Allen has asked for the hair policy to be suspended. The School-Based Decision Making Council at ...

The principal of Smyrna Elementary failed to take proper measures to ensure parent and staff involvement in school decision-making — and in doing so “persistently” broke state law, according to the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of the Jefferson County Public Schools School Based Decision Making (SBDM) Council voted to keep an LGBTQ+ book that sparked controversy on bookshelves Monday. That means ...

“…there are limits on a board’s authority and we are not permittedto usurp the authority of site based councils.” In 1990, the Kentucky General Assembly ...

School-based decision making gives educators and parents ownership of the decisions that are made on behalf of children. A new bill threatens that.