By USDA Food and Nutrition Service USDA announced recently that Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee were selected to participate in the initial year of an innovative universal free meal service option that makes it easier for low-income children to receive meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. The “Community Eligibility Option” will allow schools in high-poverty areas to [...]
DuPont Manual High School (Jefferson County) recently won the 2011 Kentucky Envirothon, held at the Kentucky Leadership Center near Nancy. This award was presented by the Kentucky Division of Conservation. DuPont Manual High will represent Kentucky at the Canon Envirothon, an international event hosted by Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada July 24-29. The state competition featured 33 [...]
Mathmaster.org offers short videos explaining mathematics concepts of numbers, algebra, space and shape, and data and probability. Each video offers a short, concise explanation on how to perform tasks such as adding numbers in a column or graph transformations. The activities section offers video explanations of some fun mathematics activities for students such as curves of pursuit and sequence designs. [...]
Forty-eight Kentucky school principals will receive executive-level leadership training as participants in an institute being created and funded by the state’s business community through the Kentucky Chamber Foundation. The principals were chosen for pilot classes (two groups of 24 each) of the Leadership Institute for School Principals that will begin this summer at the nationally recognized Center for Creative Leadership [...]