Forward in the Fifth – a nonprofit organization created in 1986 by U.S. Congressman Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) to reverse southern and eastern Kentucky’s low educational attainment levels – will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Nov. 7 in Hazard with an awards luncheon and Unbridled Learning Educational Summit. Educators, business leaders, parents and students from across the region will meet [...]
The School for the Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) (Fayette County) has been named winner of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts’ Education Award. The Kentucky Arts Council and Gov. Steve Beshear will present the award to SCAPA at a public ceremony Oct. 20 in the Capitol Rotunda. The Education Award is handed out for significant contributions to the arts [...]
Seventy Kentucky participants received 32 gold, 26 silver and 12 bronze medals in 28 national Students Taking Action with Recognition (STAR) Events recently as more than 6,300 nationwide members, advisers, alumni and guests of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), gathered in Anaheim, Calif., for its 2011 National Leadership Conference. From Kentucky, 180 members from 28 schools [...]
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) awarded Kentucky two education awards earlier this month. One was the inaugural John I. Wilson Leadership for Learning Award for the state’s Content Leadership Networks and Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS). The award honors John Wilson, National Education Association executive director, and founding member of P21 who is retiring this year. The [...]
Secretary of State Elaine Walker has announced three public school winners for the 2011 annual election slogan and essay contest managed by her office with support from the Kentucky Education Association Retired and the University of Kentucky Scripps Howard First Amendment Center, a division of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications. The contest was created by the Kentucky General Assembly [...]
The Prichard Committee recognized the head of its parent leadership efforts, Bev Raimondo, for 20 years of work for the organization. She was recognized during the group’s June meeting at General Butler State Park in Carrollton. Raimondo joined the Prichard staff in 1991 after a career at IBM. After the passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990, Raimondo [...]
Veteran educator and community leader Hilma Prather of Somerset recently became the new chair of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. Prather, a retired principal from the Somerset Independent school district, is a member of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, KET’s governing board, and has been a member of the Kentucky Board of Education, the advisory board of Somerset [...]
Two state championship winners have won International Awards for the ThinkQuest 2011 Competition. They will travel to San Francisco in October and attend ThinkQuest Live. Charles Russell Elementary School (Ashland Independent) won first place with an obesity weight awareness project. Cynde Elkins is the team’s coach. A team from Woodford County High School won second place for non-profit organization browser. [...]
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 [...]
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) announced recently that Donnie Wilkerson, a teacher at Jamestown Elementary School (Russell County) has been named the 2011 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year. Wilkerson has been teaching at Jamestown Elementary for seven years after a diverse career that included owning several businesses and serving as the mayor of Jamestown from 1993-98. […]