"If year-round education were the traditional school calendar and had been so for 100 years or more, and if someone came along to suggest a "new" calendar wherein students were to be educated for only nine months each year with another three months free from organized instruction, would the American public allow, or even consider, such a calendar?"
                                                                                                 Charles Ballinger, Educational Leadership Journal February 1988

Who is KAYRE?

In 1996, the Kentucky Association for Year-Round Education was formed by several districts as a non-profit organization that promotes the concept of year-round education by providing leadership and service to individuals and organizations on all aspects of time and learning.  As repository of information, it serves as a clearinghouse for information on year-round education (YRE) to the Kentucky.  The association encourages research, provides consultants to schools and districts, and conducts state conferences to provide the most up-to-date information available to educators and community members.

Mission?

    KAYRE promotes the concept of year-round education by providing leadership and services toindividuals, school districts, and organizations. KAYRE represents the philosophy of continuous learning throughout our students’ years of formal education.

Purpose:

• To provide an organized channel for disseminating information about year-round education through information services, human resources and conferences/workshops

• To foster the concept of year-round education as a possible way to improve educational programs in terms of:

a.  providing a quality education

b.  adapting the school calendar to the community and family living patterns, and attaining optimum efficiency

• To encourage objective study and research of continuous education programs and the effects of these programs on all aspects of the educational endeavor.

• To initiate and support public policy that strengthens the educational enterprise.

KAYRE Intersession Mini-Grant Program

• Mini-Grant Flier

• Mini-Grant Program Overview

• Mini-Grant Application Instructions

• Mini-Grant Application Form

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