school safety

Gov. Andy Beshear, Kentucky Department of Education, and Kentucky State Police are speaking out about this week’s rash of school threats. At least five online posts have threatened violence following last week’s deadly school shooting in Georgia and the I-75 shooting in Laurel County.

Policymakers across Kentucky — and the nation — have grappled with how to best prevent mass school shootings committed by children, like those in…

One year after a student shot two classmates to death in Marshall County, Kentucky and a former student massacred 17 students and educators at a high…

The parents of two teenagers killed during a shooting at Marshall County High School last year testified on Thursday in favor of a bill that seeks to…

During the upcoming Kentucky General Assembly, lawmakers will consider taking up a variety of proposals like a new attempt to change state worker pension…

Federal education officials will be in Lexington on Tuesday to hear recommendations about how to make schools safer.The listening session will be the…

State lawmakers on Monday heard recommendations about how to how to make Kentucky schools safer in the wake of the deadly shooting at Marshall County High…

A bill to arm some Tennessee teachers is moving along in the state’s legislature.The legislation would allow a select number of teachers to carry guns at…

This week in Kentucky politics, students marched on the state Capitol to call for lawmakers to come up with solutions to school shootings; during a radio…

A bill that would create new statewide school safety standards has unanimously passed the House Education Committee and will soon be considered on the…