Friday, July 31, 2009  Busing the planet into oblivion  The
Jefferson County School District is continuing its efforts to
get around the U. S. Supreme Court decision striking down their
forced busing plan. And three parents are suing the district to,
like, make them do the right thing.  Here's Richard Innes at the
Bluegrass Policy Blog: One of the three parents suing the
district was told his child would be forced to travel about 20
miles away to the Shelby Elementary school instead of the local
area school.  Now, that is really curious.  According to the “NO
CHILD LEFT BEHIND, Adequate Yearly Progress, 2008 School and
District Results, August 5, 2008 Release” Shelby Elementary
School is in Tier 3 status under No Child Left Behind. That
means as of the summer of 2008 this school had failed to make
adequate yearly progress for four years in a row.  Quite
important to the current discussion, parents of students already
in that school had to be offered the right to transfer their
students out to better performin