KY Senate adds restrictions to plan requiring new teachers to work longer, pay more
The Kentucky Senate on Monday added new restrictions to an already controversial teacher pension bill that would reduce benefits for new hires. House Bill 258 would require teachers hired after … Click to Continue »
KY legislature’s budget plan omits $52.4 million for retired teacher health insurance
The Kentucky legislature’s nearly $12 billion state budget plan omitted a promised $52.4 million state subsidy to help pay for health insurance for retired school teachers. The state subsidy helps … Click to Continue »
‘Imperfect plan:’ Fayette special schools will reopen March 22 despite bus driver shortage
Several special Fayette County school programs delayed from returning to in-person instruction because of a bus driver shortage will reopen March 22, Acting Superintendent Marlene Helm told families in a … Click to Continue »
The University of Kentucky plans to return to ‘more normal’ operations in the fall
The University of Kentucky is planning to return to largely in-person classes next fall, the university’s president announced in an email to the campus on Friday. Planning for the fall … Click to Continue »
Here’s why this Kentucky community is coming together to remember a century-old lynching
The intersection outside Versailles where U.S. 60 and 62 meet has for much of Micah Lynn’s life been an “unremarkable” location. “You imagine it happening in some corner of some … Click to Continue »
University of Kentucky will have in-person graduation in May for 2020 and 2021 grads
The University of Kentucky will have in-person graduation ceremonies in May for the university’s 2020 and spring 2021 graduates in May, UK’s president announced Wednesday. The commencement ceremonies will be … Click to Continue »
Students applying to UK for the next three years will not need to submit ACT, SAT scores
Students applying to the University of Kentucky will not need to submit a standardized test score for at least the next few years, extending a pandemic-related change meant to assist … Click to Continue »
Rapper Jack Harlow to donate $500,000 to two Kentucky historically Black colleges
Louisville rapper Jack Harlow plans to donate $500,000 to two Kentucky historically Black colleges. Harlow announced Saturday that he would donate the money to Kentucky State University in Frankfort and … Click to Continue »
Activist ‘deeply disappointed’ after Fayette district cancels meeting on school police
National civil rights activist Shaun King on Thursday said that Fayette County Public Schools canceled a scheduled afternoon meeting with himself, high school students, school board members and others to … Click to Continue »
Updated: Kentucky teacher faces 22 rape charges. School district ‘dismayed’
A man charged with 22 counts of third-degree rape involving one alleged victim was a Marion County Area Technology Center teacher, according to the Lebanon Police Department. Matthew R. Edwards, … Click to Continue »
Bill sets date for in-person learning, could force return at Fayette’s special programs
A bill on Wednesday moved ahead in the General Assembly that would require all Kentucky schools to open for in-person instruction by March 29 throughout this academic year at least … Click to Continue »
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