Jess Clark

Nearly three-quarters of the state’s teachers are at risk of leaving Kentucky’s public schools—that was the warning from Kentucky Education Commissioner Jason Glass to a committee of state lawmakers Tuesday.

The annual report from the National Education Association, a teacher’s union, shows Kentucky’s average teacher pay dropping from 35th in the nation to 36th last school year.

The 2022 regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly was the last session for a number of legislators who have announced their retirement.

Republicans in the Kentucky General Assembly say they’ve fixed a bill that would have created criminal penalties, including jail time, for teachers who run afoul of new “anti-critical race theory”-inspired restrictions on classroom speech.

Transgender girls as young as sixth grade will no longer be allowed to compete on girls and women’s sports teams in Kentucky, after the GOP-led General Assembly overrode a veto from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that would fund charter schools for the first time in Kentucky.

A bill that would fund charter schools for the first time in Kentucky got the greenlight Monday afternoon from the Senate Education Committee.

A House bill requiring local Kentucky school boards to hold 15 minutes of public comment during their monthly meetings passed a Senate committee Thursday, bringing the measure close to final passage.

The Kentucky Teachers Retirement System responded on Monday to false claims spread on social media about its investments in a Russian bank.

A bill filed Tuesday in the Kentucky General Assembly would fund charter schools and allow them to get off the ground, five years after lawmakers first made charter schools legal.