Jess Clark

The Ky. Dept. of Education brought its guidance in line with the latest recommendation from the CDC, which says all people in schools should wear masks, vaccinated or not.

With weeks to go before the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, state officials say the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 has led to a quintupling of new cases

State and local education leaders doubled down on their commitment to racial equity Tuesday, during an hours-long legislative committee meeting about critical race theory.

A new report from the Annie E. Casey foundation ranks Kentucky 37th in the nation for overall child well-being, the same ranking as the last report in 2020. The 2021 rankings are based on 2019 data on family income, child health indicators and educational outcomes. They show the state made progress in the last decade up until the pandemic.

A former teacher at a Louisville Catholic school says the archdiocese fired her because she had sex outside of marriage.

The Kentucky Department of Education dropped its COVID-19 guidance for schools Friday afternoon, in line with Gov. Andy Beshear’s decision to all state coronavirus restrictions beginning Friday.

Several Kentucky state lawmakers have introduced legislation to limit discussions of race in the classroom, following in the footsteps of other conservative state legislatures.

A Kentucky state lawmaker is introducing legislation that would keep transgender women athletes from playing on women’s sports teams.

Lawyers with Council For Better Education say a new tax-credit scholarship program, created by the passage of HB 563 earlier this year, is not legal under the state’s constitution.

Two more Kentucky Republican lawmakers want to limit teaching about systemic racism in the state’s public schools. Nicholasville Rep. Matt Lockett and Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker of Waddy filed a bill ahead of the next legislative session that they say would prevent public K-12 schools and public colleges and universities from teaching critical race theory.