Robbie Fletcher, who is now the superintendent of Lawrence County Schools in Eastern Kentucky, was confirmed to become Kentucky’s top education official in a vote of 36-1 on Monday. He is the first education commissioner to require Senate confirmation under a law that the General Assembly passed last year.
Sen. Phillip Wheeler, who was the sponsor of the resolution, spoke highly of Fletcher ahead of the vote and highlighted Fletcher’s “continued commitment towards the children of Kentucky schools.”
Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Steve West, R-Paris, called Fletcher the “Mark Pope of Kentucky education,” referring to the newest University of Kentucky men’s basketball head coach and Fletcher’s history of working as an educator in Eastern Kentucky.
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