Applications Open for Kentucky Student Council

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published August 9, 2012 at 9:11 AM CDT

Kentucky public school students in grades 10 to 12 who have ideas about how to improve schools and student achievement can apply for appointment to a board that will advise state Education Commissioner Terry Holliday. The Education Department says the Next-Generation Student Council is a yearlong program providing student feedback that also engages student leaders in learning by doing. The group will meet with Holliday and Education Department staff. Appointments will be based on the applicants' ability to communicate their ideas and goals. Four students will be selected. Applications must be in by the close of business Eastern Time on August 31st and are available at the Kentucky Department of Education's website.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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