United Way of Greater Cincinnati has donated $500,000 to EducateNKY, a Northern Kentucky education nonprofit, to support its mission of improving education outcomes and workforce readiness in the region.
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EducateNKY launches assistance program at local schools
EducateNKY, a group of local leaders and volunteers, provided hands-on support to Covington Ninth District Elementary and Newport Intermediate schools, welcoming students, assisting with lunch cartons and guiding students to classrooms.
State of our schools: What’s working, how can we improve?
This story originally appeared in the Aug. 23, 2024 edition of the LINK Reader. Matt Baker has seen big changes in Northern Kentucky public education in his six years as superintendent of Walton-Verona Independent Schools. As with all change, some is positive and some is not. A dichotomy has developed in the region, with school […]
Family engagement in K-12 education: a focus of EducateNKY
School districts in the river cities — and most everywhere else — frequently talk about something called family engagement. It’s more than running for school board or attending school-based decision making council meetings and sporting events. The Kentucky Department of Education calls it “families and school staff work(ing) together to support and improve the learning […]
EducateNKY: ‘It’s not just about education’
EducateNKY, a new organization is focused on improving outcomes for all kids and their families by exploring and adopting innovative approaches to pre-K-12 education in Northern Kentucky, and has completed a landscape assessment to begin working on its five priorities: early learning, family engagement, mastery learning, exposure, and out-of-school-time and secondary options.

