Jess Clark

Kentucky Commissioner of Education Jason Glass said he probably won’t stand behind the state’s new charter school funding law should opponents file a constitutional challenge in court.

Many districts in eastern Kentucky had to delay the start of school. But students in hard-hit Knott and Letcher Counties waited the longest

State education officials are welcoming the tens of millions of dollars in relief lawmakers have agreed on for flood-impacted schools. But more assistance will likely be needed, education leaders say, especially when it comes to regulations around the number of required school days.

A third of Kentuckians with federal student loans could see all of their debt canceled under the Biden administration’s new program.

Teachers and students in parts of Kentucky are reckoning with heavily damaged schools and a delayed start to the school year after deadly flash floods inundated the region last month.

Authorities arrested nine people: three adults and six minors.

Eight-year-old Rachael Parks stepped gingerly over the flood debris between her home and the creek in Buckhorn, Kentucky, surveying the wreckage: pieces of their neighbors’ homes, her family’s trampoline, twisted and tangled, a bright pink BB gun her mom warned her that, no, she can’t pick up.

“I’ve waited 874 days for today,” Taylor’s mother Tamika Palmer said, speaking to press and supporters gathered at Jefferson Square Park after the announcement Thursday morning.

The flood damage to eastern Kentucky school buildings and communities is severe and widespread, according to system superintendents who spoke with state officials on a call Monday.

When you ask University of Louisville medical student Blair Wooten why she wants to be an OB-GYN, she talks about her mother, who became pregnant in college, and ended up dropping out.