It isn't uncommon for those who don't know Kentuckians to ask whether we wear shoes, a stereotype that points at the state being rural, poor, and uneducated. As with most stereotypes, this image contains a grain of truth. Before reforms that began in the early nineties, Kentucky ranked near the bottom in the amount of money spent per child on K - 12 education. As Angela Hatton reports, business and industrial development means another transition for Kentucky's education system.