For Release: 2008-01-14 14:07:00
Renee speaks with Elaine Farris, deputy commissioner in the education department’s Bureau of Learning and Results Services, on the next Connections with Renee Shaw, airing Saturday, Feb. 2 at 3/2 p.m. CT on KET1 and Sunday, Feb. 10 at 11:30/10:30 a.m. CT on KET2.Farris became Kentucky’s first African-American school district superintendent in 2004. She now oversees five offices in the education department: District Support Services, Teaching and Learning, Assessment and Accountability, Leadership and School Improvement, and Special Instructional Services. Those offices provide extensive services to Kentucky public school districts, including finance, facilities, nutrition, curriculum development, virtual learning, early childhood education, assessment, school improvement, school assistance, special needs, career and technical education, federal programs, and teacher and student diversity.
An Eastern Kentucky University graduate, Farris has nearly 30 years of educational experience and has served as elementary director in Fayette County, elementary principal and assistant principal in Clark County and as a health and physical education teacher in Clark County.
On the program, Farris, who was recently appointed to the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, KET’s governing board, discusses her years of service and the future of education in Kentucky.
Connections with Renee Shaw is a KET production, produced by Renee Shaw and Carolyn Gwinn. More information about Connections, including streaming video, is available at www.ket.org/connections. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Amanda Stroud
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