The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recently announced the beginning of the annual Adopt-a-Highway Poster Contest, which emphasizes and promotes the importance of removing litter from Kentucky roadways. Students are invited to submit creative works for use in the Adopt-a-Highway calendar for 2014. The contest is open to all Kentucky elementary, middle and high school students. Exposure to the contest and to [...]
Gov. Steve Beshear, First Lady Jane Beshear and Education Commissioner Terry Holliday honored school boards across Kentucky that raced to adopt the new “Graduate Kentucky” standard, keeping students in school until they earn a high school diploma or turn 18. To date, 120 Kentucky local boards of education have voted to raise the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 18. [...]
Tim Hitzfield Tim Hitzfield, the principal of Conner High School (Boone County), was named the 2013 School Administrator of the Year by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA). The announcement was made recently during the organization’s annual leadership institute in Louisville.Another Boone County Schools staff member, Deputy Superintendent Karen Cheser, was named the District Administrator of the [...]
Kristal Doolin By the time this article is posted online, I will have already welcomed my new students, established rules and routines, and set them up in our digital classroom on Edmodo, the first of many technology tools we will use this year. As summer slips away and you make plans for meeting Kentucky Core Academic Standards and Program [...]