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…

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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…

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Here’s What Kentucky Lawmakers Will Consider Starting On Tuesday

by Ryland Barton – State lawmakers return to Frankfort Tuesday after a break in this year’s General Assembly. With nearly two months left, the legislature is likely to consider major changes to the public education and criminal justice systems, giving the governor more power to reorganize university boards and altering the way medical malpractice lawsuits progress through…

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