Now some state lawmakers are reacting to the state school report card during a legislative hearing in Frankfort today.

Republicans in particular expressed concerns about the lagging educational progress of Kentucky kids.

Our June Leffler has this report.

When I see the carrier reporting it, 48% of our 45,000 recent graduates left high school without achieving at least one of our career readiness indicators.

Then we're failing students.

When I see in the Herald-Leader that only one in four schools had 50% or more students scoring proficient or distinguished in math.

We're failing too many students.

For all the celebrations that we're enjoying in some districts with these results.

We have some districts that have failed our kids.

Given says these scores will be addressed in next year's legislative budget session.

Whether it's a classroom environment situation, whether it's wraparound mental health services, whatever it may be.

But let's help these kids and these families and these systems move forward.

Our future.

Leaders.

Several lawmakers say they need this data sooner.

This this case, a score is simply a snapshot.

As a principal, we talk about K say, two different times.

We talk about them while we're taking the test and we talk about them today.

So, you know, we've got an election coming up next Tuesday, I believe.

And let's let's imagine that we have this election and we don't find out who wins for six months.

How effective is that?

We took a say back in May.

We are celebrating today with students who are not even in my building anymore.

How often students even go to class was also on the state report card.

Almost 30% of Kentucky students qualified as chronically absent in the last school year, meaning they missed 17 or more school days.

While an officer with the courts says diversion measures can curb truancy.

Prosecutors say early intervention with consequences could solve Kentucky's chronic absenteeism.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Thank you, June.

That was the last meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Education for this year.

But Kentucky state lawmakers will revisit learning, loss and other education matters when the Kentucky General Assembly convenes in January.