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Kentucky Commissioner of Education Referendum (1957)

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The Kentucky Commissioner of Education Referendum was on the November 5, 1957 ballot in Kentucky as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure would have abolished the elective superintendent of public instruction and established in its place a commissioner of education appointed by a nine-member Board of Education.[1]

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