Jess Clark

Kentucky’s top state education official is seeking employmentelsewhere. Commissioner of Education Jason Glass has been named one of four finalists to become superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, a Maryland district of more than 111,000 students.

As billionaire Kelly Craft makes her rounds across Kentucky in this year’s race for governor, supporters may notice similar talking points to other Republican candidates. It’s no coincidence.

Virginia Moore is remembered as a “rock of stability and grace through the pandemic.”

New guidance from the Kentucky Department of Education advises school districts to remove sex ed from fifth-grade curriculum and tread cautiously with bathroom bans.

Police say at least five people are dead and several others were transported to University of Louisville Hospital after a shooting on East Main Street on Monday morning.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has allowed a bill criticized as a “book-banning” measure to become law without his signature.

Kentucky lawmakers have spent a lot of time talking about the state’s teacher shortage this legislative session. So what did they do toaddress the issue?Jefferson County Teachers’ Association President Brent McKim said some bills around licensure and student behavior may aid schools in hiring and retention, but other measures limiting academic freedom could make the state’s teacher shortage evenworse.

Amid culture war clashes over LGBTQ-inclusive school policies, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would give the GOP-controlled Senate the power to confirm or deny the state’s education commissioner.

If Beshear vetoes the measure, lawmakers can easily override the move when they return for the final two days of the legislative session on March 29-30.

In a late-session effort, some GOP lawmakers are pushing through a controversial measure that would allow the state to pay for private school tuition.