KEA backs top priority Senate bill reforming education

by Nick Storm, @NStorm_politics –FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Education Association is backing Senate Republican’s top priority education reform bill this session. Senate Bill 1 would largely change the shape of education in the commonwealth by more closely mirroring the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) allowing more local control and ending the influence of Common Core in both state standards and…

Seven bills to watch in the Kentucky Senate this week

BY JOHN CHEVES, [email protected] –  The Kentucky General Assembly resumes its 2017 session Tuesday afternoon with an ambitious conservative agenda set by the state’s newly unified Republican leadership. When lawmakers adjourned Jan. 7 for a monthlong break, they had just passed a flurry of bills establishing new restrictions on abortion and labor unions, and Gov. Matt Bevin enthusiastically signed…