The folks at CBS are learning that you don't mess with Frosty. Parents are all up in arms about the two new Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman online ads that mash up classic scenes from "Frosty the Snowman" and "Frost Returns" with dialogue from the CBS' [...]
Supreme Court to Review
Rights of Student Religious Groups
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to review whether a public college may deny recognition to a student religious group because the group requires its members to agree with its religious beliefs.
The [...]
Less than two years after announcing that it would waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working for nonprofit organizations or for the government, Harvard Law School is suspending the program — in part because almost twice as many [...]
This from the New York Times:26 Students Arrested in Protest Over Tuition Increases
Twenty-six students were arrested at San Francisco State University before dawn on Thursday after some students barricaded themselves inside a building to protest budget cuts and tuition increases across the [...]
A report from the Center for Public Integrity indicates more than 20% of college women will be victims of rape or attempted rape by the time they graduate.
Kristen Lombardi, investigative reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, and lead author on the report, "
KENTON COM. ATTN. SUED FOR
MALACIOUS PROSECUTION
BY ACQUITTED SCHOOL TEACHER WHO WAS ALLEGED
TO HAVE HAD SEX WITH A MALE STUDENT
On Wed. Nov. 25th. Nicole Howell filed a Federal 1983 Civil Rights complaint against Kenton Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders. The suit claims [...]
We promised to keep a close watch on what is happening at the federal level, and now it begins to get interesting. And a bit scary, if you care about the future of public education.
The U.S. Department of Education announced its plan [...]
Two female Romance language instructors were tossed out of their Brooklyn high school after being caught "undressed" in an empty classroom, sources told the Daily News Tuesday.
Students at James Madison High School in Midwood were [...]
The Kentucky Board of Education will tackle several key items related to plans for statewide educational improvements during two days of meetings in Frankfort starting Wednesday.
Board members are to consider steps aimed at ensuring that course content is uniform across the state, [...]
Rose at 20: Debra Dawahare, Esq. and Judge Ray Corns from UK College of Education [...]
Schools face $20 million spending cut: The Kentucky Department of Education plans to cut its spending by about $20 million over the rest of this fiscal year, which could affect many programs in local school districts around the state. Bedrock items including the [...]
In Montgomery County this week some parents complained that certain novels contained foul language and cover topics — including sex, child abuse, suicide and drug abuse — unsuited for discussion in coed high school classes. [...]
This from Jim Warren at the Herald-Leader:A dispute over books at Montgomery County High School has embroiled parents, teachers, students and others over the past several months, extending to authors and censorship groups at the national level.The Boyd County teacher accused of sending sexually charged text messages to a middle school student has lost his Kentucky teaching credentials forever, state records show.
Minutes of the Sept. 14 meeting of the Kentucky Educational Professional Standards Board, posted online, show that Creth [...]
This from the Henry County Local: A 16-year old male driver was typing a text message into his phone when he almost rear-ended a motorcycle, veered off the right side of the road then hit a deer.
A 16-year old girl fared little better, [...]
The Kentucky Department of Education, its board and a host of school boards from around the state are seeking [...]
President Abraham Lincoln had always expressed the quandary of God’s presence during the Civil War. By Penney Sanders
When the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) was enacted in 1990, a founding principle was that “no child shall remain in a failing school…”.
At that time the public perception was that Kentucky was full of failing schools. While there was little data to quantify [...]
This from City Pages: Former River Falls teacher's aide Rebecca Ann O'Malley-Tietz has been arrested and charged with first degree sexual assault of a child. The boy, a student of River Falls School District's Harbor Program, where O'Malley-Tietz worked, was 12 years old at [...] 
This from the Herald-Leader, Photo by Steve Ueckert:U.S. MARSHAL FROM KENTUCKY
HONORED FOR ROLE IN
INTEGRATING SOUTH
The Norman Rockwell print titled "The Problem We All Live With" features a small, black girl walking between four very tall men.
The little girl [...]
Miami's new business buliding was the venue for Doug Eder's presentation on the Joys of Assessment yesterday. Very nice. The photos show the left-hand third of the room.Beshear asks some agencies to plan for 6 percent cuts this year: Gov. Steve Beshear notified some state agencies Friday to plan for 6 percent cuts to their current budgets to make up for an estimated $161 million revenue shortfall this fiscal year. However, many of the state's major spending [...]
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday was supposed to be on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 the other night.Anderson Cooper [...]
This from Marc Murphy at
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