Bluegrass Institute

05/31/2026

Fayette County Public Schools will cut staff to deal with a substantial budget crunch and severe financial mismanagement.

Our own Richard Innes suggested they do exactly that more than six months ago. And he explained how they can avoid the same problem in the future.

Comparing Fayette County Public Schools’ staffing trends to enrollment and academic performance

05/27/2026

Certificate of need laws were sold in the 70s as a tool to control costs and prevent duplication. After 50 years, the evidence shows they did neither. Kentucky still has them on the books, and the results are dire. Our latest in the Courier-Journal.

Defenders of KY's certificate of need laws rest on the promise that restricting supply lowers costs and protects rural hospitals. Neither is true.

05/22/2026

Sending out an SOS. During our Bluegrass Advisory Council meeting last week, we were joined by not one, but two Kentucky Secretaries of State, Trey Grayson and Michael Adams.

The Bluegrass Advisory Council is an invitation-only panel aimed at enhancing our strategic efforts to advance individual liberty, limited government, and free markets in the commonwealth.

05/15/2026

05/13/2026

"The current crisis is being framed almost entirely as a bookkeeping failure. That framing is incomplete. If Lexington focuses only on the accounting irregularities and not on the staffing structure that made this crisis so severe, the same story will repeat itself once the auditors leave."

Why FCPS staffing levels should never have grown so disconnected from student enrollment.

05/11/2026

School choice is coming to Kentucky.

Bluegrass Institute CEO Caleb O. Brown attended a signing ceremony for House Bill 1 opting Kentucky into a federal scholarship tax credit program.