Kentucky Schools

A Kentucky constitutional amendment to allow public funds to go toward private education is sparking a spending battle between powerful PACs.

Competing political issue committees have raised millions of dollars that will be spent on ads supporting and opposing a ballot referendum asking whether Kentucky should amend its constitution to allow public funds to go to private and charter schools.

The number of Kentucky youth who are chronically absent from school skyrocketed during the 2022-2023 school year.

Education advocates opposing a proposed constitutional amendment that would move funding away from public schools held their first campaign stop in Paducah on Tuesday.

Opponents of K-12 privatization in Kentucky announced an effort to oppose Amendment 2 on the November ballot, which would allow tax dollars to flow to private and charter schools.

Kentucky’s next commissioner of education Robbie Fletcher said he wants to reform school accountability measures, like testing, and change the conversation about teaching.

A bill filed by Republican Sen. Stephen Meredith seeks to outlaw school efforts aimed at fostering “diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.”

Leaders from two rural Kentucky districts told a committee of state lawmakers Tuesday that schools are still dealing with high levels of chronic absenteeism.

The Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 was supposed to level out school funding across the state. A new report from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy shows it's not working anymore.

The outcome could determine whether Kentucky will join the vast majority of U.S. states with charter schools.