Education

The bill's sponsor said he “... could not come up with a good definition for tenure that I felt comfortable putting in statute.”
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University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said he expects the Trump administration policy will cut tens of millions of dollars annually from its National Institutes of Health funding for research.
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A spokesperson for MSU said they hope to have the school's 15th president appointed and in place "prior to the beginning of the 2025-26 academic year."
Last week, students on the Kentucky Student Voice Team filed a lawsuit against the state for failing to provide “an adequate and equitable public education.”
The lawsuit claims the legislature and state education officials are falling short of their constitutional obligations.
The requested records relate to a September report in which a UK student said she was sexually assaulted off campus and then later in her dorm room at Chellgren Hall by a Lexington man, Chase McGuire, 22.
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KCTCS has more than 100,000 students across 16 colleges within Kentucky. Hopkinsville Community College is part of the system.
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The scholarship recognizes Lacy's accounting career spanning 50 years in Hopkinsville.
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Lewis began her career in 1998 as a teacher in Christian County Public Schools.
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65% of voters rejected Amendment 2, which would have opened a path for the GOP-controlled legislature to allow public money to fund private schools.
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In rural areas, public schools are often the only education option. If families in Colorado, Kentucky or Nebraska are allowed to divert state funds to private education, rural communities stand to suffer the most, reports The Daily Yonder.
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