As all of you know, the Commonwealth of Kentucky is looking at educational budget cuts in the P-12 system.  Last night, I found this response from Education Commissioner Draud to Governor Breshear, published on the KDE web site.  The four areas potentially being targeted are Extended School Services, Safe Schools, Textbooks, and Professional Development for Teachers.

http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/HomePageRepository/News+Room/Current+Press+Releases+and+Advisories/08-003.htm

My school relies heavily on Extended School Services to help with our dropout rate (it went from 6.67% to 2.2%) and has drastically decreased the number of freshman failures.  I am a math teacher, so textbook adoption affects me, but if we had to use the texts another year or so, that would not be detrimental.  I am concerned about the professional development because I think it is how we improve teacher quality.