What you need to know Kentucky lawmakers heard an update on a law passed earlier this year that allows school boards to apply for waivers for “schools of innovation” and subcontract their management to outside entities such as charter school operators. The discussion before the Budget Subcommittee on Education comes nearly a week after the Kentucky […]
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Unpacking the discourse around Amendment 2
Correction: The original version of this story misidentified the genre of a publication from Marnie McAllister, the editor of The Record, as well as her role. The relevant lines have been corrected, and we apologize for any confusion this may have caused–LINK nky editorial, Oct. 14, 2024. One thing is clear about Kentucky Constitutional Amendment […]
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Kentucky Teacher of the Year speaks out against school choice amendment
This story was initially published with incorrect data regarding Calvary Christian School’s student body size; it has been updated to reflect the correct data. 2024 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Kevin Dailey doesn’t think school choice is the real issue behind Amendment 2, a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall to allow state […]
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Proposed school choice amendment battleground comes to NKY
The battle lines on public funding for private education are officially drawn in Northern Kentucky, where forces rallied against a proposed school choice amendment in Newport on Thursday. A Protect Our Schools KY rally at Newport High School brought together dozens of public school stakeholders who oppose amending the state constitution to allow lawmakers to […]
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How Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature is changing the face of state law
Senate President Robert Stivers sat with reporters over coffee early one recent Tuesday and reminisced about the last time Democrats controlled the Kentucky Senate. It was January 1997 and Stivers, then a 30-something lawyer from Clay County, had just been elected in 1996 for the first time to what was then a Republican Senate minority. […]
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2024 Kentucky General Assembly session preview
Budget, public safety, workforce development, school choice top to-do list The Kentucky legislative process is political. That’s true both inside Republican and Democratic caucuses and in how the parties interact with each other. Bills can live or die by the clout of the lawmaker (or lawmakers) behind them. Then there is the state budget, which […]
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Gov. Beshear: Voter approval of public funding for private schools unlikely
Gov. Andy Beshear told LINK nky on Wednesday that he doesn’t think Kentuckians would approve a constitutional amendment to allow public funding for schools outside of the state’s current public education system. When asked about any future legislative efforts to redefine common schools, aka public schools, for that purpose, Beshear said, “I believe that would […]