Governor Steve Beshear Reverses KSP's "English Only" Driving Test Decision.

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Kentucky is reconsidering its decision to begin offering the state’s written driver’s test only in English.

Just five days before the state was to stop offering tests in different languages, State Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer has decided more study is needed, officials said this morning.

“We’re going to step back and make sure we’re still going to be serving everyone as we should,” said KSP spokesman David Jude.

But Gov. Steve Beshear today said the state police made a mistake in its English-only driver’s test decision.

“When I find out about a mistake I think the way to handle it is to acknowledge that we made a mistake, correct it and move on, so that’s what we are doing,” he said.

Kentucky State Police Capt. Tim Lucas told state employees in a memo this month that offering the test in 22 languages, as the state has done for several years, is expensive and isn’t required by law.

Lucas said that as changes have been made to the test through the years, the non-English versions haven’t been updated. He also said people administering the test can’t read them and must grade them using answer keys.