Promise Neighborhood Initiative introduced in Fayette County
The Promise Neighborhood Initiative was introduced by Darryl Thompson, Lisa Deffendall and Adrian Wallace during a Fayette County School Board meeting Dec. 16, 2019. … Click to Continue »
Ky. districts still want to skip charter school training. They’ll ask new state board.
Officials of four local Kentucky school boards hope the governor’s new state education board will allow them out of mandatory charter school training after their requests were previously denied by … Click to Continue »
University of Kentucky to increase minimum wage, expand parental leave benefits
The University of Kentucky announced Thursday several improvements in employee pay and benefits, including a sharp increase in how much minimum wage workers will earn. For the second time in … Click to Continue »
‘It’s discriminatory… it’s dangerous.’ Controversial school ‘bathroom bill’ back in Ky.
A lawmaker who is a Menifee County pastor has pre-filed for the 2020 Kentucky General Assembly a bill that would put limitations on which public school bathroom transgender students could … Click to Continue »
Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis resigns as new board meets
Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis resigned on Thursday as Gov. Andy Beshear’s newly-appointed Kentucky Board of Education met for the first time. Lewis declined to comment through a spokeswoman, but … Click to Continue »
Ousted KY education board files emergency motion to stop meeting of new group
Ousted members of the Kentucky Board of Education on Thursday filed an emergency motion with the state court of appeals to stop a meeting of Gov. Andy Beshear’s newly appointed … Click to Continue »
Ousted Kentucky education board seeks injunction; new board prepares for first meeting
Details will be released Wednesday about the first meeting of the new Kentucky Board of Education that Gov. Andy Beshear appointed on Inauguration Day, said new board chairman David Karem. … Click to Continue »
‘There’s a bomb ticking.’ How will Lexington attack teen vaping epidemic?
Seemingly overnight in Lexington, teenagers began illegally buying vaping materials at gas stations and selling them at inflated costs to other students who became addicted to nicotine. Many young people … Click to Continue »
As promised, Gov. Beshear appoints all new members to Kentucky Board of Education
Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order in his first day in office to create a new state school board. He said in the order that the current board has … Click to Continue »
It will cost more to live and eat at UK next year. Find out how much.
It will cost University of Kentucky students more to live and eat on campus next year. Under a proposal approved by the UK Board of Trustees at a Tuesday meeting, … Click to Continue »
Kentucky teacher’s classroom receives makeover over weekend
Karen Haskins and Patricia Hughes, co-founders of Designing Classrooms, re-decorated the classroom of Sibbie Blevins, a 1st grade teacher at Strode Station Elementary. … Click to Continue »
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