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Bardstown High School’s advanced placement students excelled in 2014

By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 — The Bardstown Board of Education received some good news at its Tuesday meeting about the performance of its high school students who take Advance Placement (AP) classes.

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Chairman Jennifer Shrewsberry and Superintendent Brent Holsclaw discuss a point during Tuesday’s Bardstown Board of Education meeting.

Bardstown High School’s Assistant Principal Aaron Boggs told the board that the number of its students who passed at least one AP exam increased by 10 percent over the previous year.

Sixty-three percent of Bardstown High School students who took an AP class passed at least one exam, Boggs explained, which is well above both the state and national averages.

Boggs noted that the AP Calculus exam pass rate rose from 67 to 100 percent in 2014; the rate for AP English Literature rose from 58 to 73 percent; and the AP Government pass rate rose from 25 percent to 86 percent. All in all, 181 high school students were tested.

The numbers show that “our students and teachers are doing a phenomenal job,” he said.

Boggs noted that the city school district has open enrollment on these advanced classes. “Any kid who wants to take an AP class can, and anyone who wants to take an AP exam can, it’s not that way at every school district.”

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Board members Franklin Hibbs III, left, and Andy Stone listen to a report during Tuesday’s Bardstown Board of Education meeting.

He credited the entire district and its schools for the success of the district’s high school students. “None of this happens without your support,” he said.

In other business, the board:

— discussed the training each board member is required to have, and accepted a suggestion from Superintendent Brent Holsclaw to see if a representative of the Kentucky School Board Association could visit the district to help some board members complete the training.

— approved a change that allow the district to work with school accrediting firm AdvancEd as a district rather than as individual school buildings. The change puts all the district’s schools on the same page, Holsclaw said.

— approved the district’s extra service schedule, which sets stipends for employees who take on additional responsibilities, like club sponsor or coach; the extended time schedule and the substitute teacher salary schedule.

— approved first reading to updates in the board’s policies.

— approved a lease contract for a tax collection software upgrade with Custom Solutions Inc.

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