Tag: Fayette County

Marcus Dobbs, director of transportation in the Fayette County schools, has been named the 2019 J.T. Coomer Memorial Director of the Year by the Student Transportation Association of Kentucky (STAK).

Students came to the national SkillsUSA conference for the competition, and they benefitted from the experience no matter where they finished.

Rachel Seevers, a 2019 graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County), embraces being a role model for the future women engineers of Kentucky.

High school students across Kentucky who are interested in education as a career spent several days in the Texas heat at the Educators Rising Conference June 22-25 in Dallas.

The Central Kentucky Educational Cooperative has named Carol Hyatt, a special education teacher at Lansdowne Elementary School (Fayette County), as Fayette County’s 2018-2019 Outstanding Educator.

Tates Creek Elementary School (Fayette County) has been recognized as a 2019 National Green Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

Students at Maxwell Elementary, Kentucky’s oldest immersion program, learn global competency along with their regular classes.

Melanie Trowel, a 7th-grade science teacher at Leestown Middle School (Fayette County), has been named the 2020 Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Education Association.

Kentucky Department of Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis announced the hiring of Jennifer Fraker as executive director of the Kentucky Board of Education. She begins this role with the department April 16.

LaMargaret Johnson, a junior at Bryan Station High School (Fayette County), impressed upon a national audience of chief state school officers and educators the vital importance of strong career and technical education (CTE) programs in a speech in Washington, D.C., April 8.