More education news coming out of Frankfort.

A decades old system that lets parents, teachers and students decide how parts of a school are run could be overhauled.

School based decision making, or SBM councils came out of the Historic Kentucky Education Reform Act back in 1990.

Senate Bill 152 would turn SBM into advisory councils available for feedback but stripped of any authority.

It was debated in the state Senate this afternoon.

Details in tonight's legislative update.

If we expect results, we must empower leaders to lead.

If we expect improvement.

We must clearly define who is responsible for achieving it.

This bill restores a proper chain of command.

It ensures that when a school succeeds, leadership can be credited, and when a school struggles, leadership has both the authority and the obligation to fix it.

I would say to all of us today, let's not be hypocrites.

Let's not say that we want parents involved in schools.

They want parents in response to their children.

And yet, when it comes to the most important thing, parents do it.

Their children.

That is, monitor them in schools and make sure they're learning is behaving.

We want to say, parents, you're out of here.

Bill 152 cleared the Senate on a vote of 27 to 11 today.

Democrats and some Republicans opposed the bill, citing the positives of school based decision making counsels they served or had observed.