Education

Kentucky's public schools will get their first ratings since before the pandemic under a brand new color-coded system.

Justices’ lines of questioning suggested a skepticism towards arguments that the tax-credit scholarship program is legal.

The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in a case that will decide whether the state can move forward with a $125 million program sending would-be tax dollars to private K-12 schools.

Ky. Education Commissioner Jason Glass says the charter school funding law has ‘significant constitutional issues.’

Students in Knott and Letcher Counties have been out of school for more than a month due to July’s deadly flooding. This week, they returned.

A middle school educator from Crittenden County is Kentucky’s Teacher of the Year for 2023. Mandy Perez was honored on Tuesday in a ceremony at the State Capitol. She teaches English and Language Arts at Crittenden County Middle School.

School officials announced enrollment is up 2.3% overall at Murray State University during Friday’s board of regents meeting, despite the downward trends impacting many universities nationwide.

Education officials from the state and federal government were in eastern Kentucky last week to survey flood damage and find out what support schools need going forward.

State education officials are welcoming the tens of millions of dollars in relief lawmakers have agreed on for flood-impacted schools. But more assistance will likely be needed, education leaders say.

School is on hold in eastern Ky. as educators, students and families pick up the pieces of their lives.