As a result of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which outcome occurred?

• A. Educator salaries nationwide increased significantly.
• B. School funding nationwide increased.
• C. Teachers' salaries and student/teacher ratios improved compared to national averages.
• D. There was no change in student outcomes.

Answer: (C)

Kentucky’s Education Reform Act focused on reshaping funding, accountability, and staffing to raise student achievement. The option that best fits the reform’s intent is that teachers’ salaries and student/teacher ratios improved relative to national averages. The reform included funding and policy changes aimed at attracting and retaining qualified teachers and reducing class sizes, which together tend to lift instructional quality and push outcomes upward when compared to broader national trends.

Choices that describe nationwide changes or no change don’t align with a state-level reform and its targeted effects on Kentucky’s staffing and classroom resources.