This study examines state- and county-level data on population, age, race and ethnicity, housing occupancy and housing tenure, education, labor force, employment and unemployment, income and poverty, health insurance coverage, disability status, migration patterns, and veteran status from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey (ACS) for the 13…

This paper profiles Kentucky's test score trends through 2008-09. In 2007, the mean scale score on the state 4th grade reading test was 455 for non-Title I students and 451 for Title I students. In 2009, the mean scale score in 4th grade reading was 455 for non-Title I students and 451 for Title I students. Between 2007 and 2009, the mean scale…

Presented are the number of degrees granted by academic field and sex for public and private institutions. One tables presents an aggregation of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; a second table is a regional aggregation of the 14 states in the south (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North…

A history of the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS) and selected data and characteristics of 1988-89 enrollments, instructional programs, financial support, and student characteristics comprise this presentation and analysis. Section I focuses on enrollment, providing fall 1988 headcount data for each of the 14 UKCCS campuses…

The 1989 census data for the state of Kentucky reveals that African American children are more than twice as likely to be poor as White children, three times more likely to grow up in a single parent family than White children, and twice as likely as White children to live in a home that is rented as opposed to owned. The data also show that the…