Jess Clark

The Fayette County Board of Education voted Monday to comply with new restrictions on trans students and classroom speech.

Statewide, less than half of Kentucky elementary school students tested at “proficient” or above in math, reading and social studies. Less than a third tested proficient or above in writing and science.

The Kentucky Department of Education will release test scores and ratings for the state’s public schools on Tuesday, offering the first meaningful glimpse of statewide school performance since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Education Opportunity Accounts program allows donors to contribute to a scholarship fund in lieu of paying state taxes. The initiative’s narrow passage in the state legislature last year was a major victory for advocates of K-12 privatization. Opponents, however, worry the $125 million program will drain needed resources from already underfunded public schools.

Kentucky's Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether the state can move forward with a program to send more than $100 million in tax dollars to private schools.

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.

More than 1,200 families lost their homes in Letcher County alone, where the school year is on hold indefinitely. Six of the district’s buildings flooded, including the central office and three schools that got eight feet of water. Two school employees died.

Kentucky has a way to fund charter schools after Republicans in both chambers overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 9. The measure will require school districts to share funding with approved charter schools within their borders.

Supporters say anti-racist initiatives in schools make white students feel guilty, and promote a “victimhood” mindset among students of color. But some Black students and their parents are worried these bills threaten to roll back progress.