Regional Partnerships Emerging to Support K-12 Innovation
written by Michele Molnar
In rural southeast Kentucky, another group is forming around the work of the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative. Ron Daley, strategic partnership lead for the cooperative, and Paul Green, Appalachian Renaissance Initiative leader, in Hazard, Ky., described their challenges, including the fact that many parents won’t encourage college attendance, because they worry that their children will move out of the area after getting a degree.
