No stranger to taking the lead, Jones has more than 50 years of combined military and educational leadership experience. He served with distinction in the United States Army from 1973 to 1993, ultimately attaining the rank of first sergeant. He then served more than three decades in public education.
Thirty-five sites in 34 school districts will be participating in the 2026 Summer Boost: Reading and Mathematics Program, a partnership between the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) and the Summer Food Service Program.
Fifteen Kentucky public school educators have been named to the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) Teachers Advisory Council (TAC) for the 2024-2025 school year, Commissioner of Education Robbie Fletcher announced Sept. 27.
Middlesboro Independent joined with Partners for Rural Impact (PRI) to start working on the phone line during the summer of 2023. The project is funded through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant from PRI.
Twenty-nine districts will be participating in this year’s Summer Boost: Reading and Mathematics Program, a partnership between the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE), the Summer Food Service Program and the Children’s Reading Foundation.
Middlesboro Independent School students had an astronomical opportunity on May 26 when astronaut John Shoffner talked with students via video call from the International Space Station (ISS).
A group of 45 Kentuckians representing various aspects of the state’s education community have been selected to serve on the Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Education, Education Commissioner Jason E. Glass announced June 1.
Gov. Andy Beshear appointed Jamie Bowling to the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) on March 12 to serve the remainder of her late husband Mike Bowling’s term.
Kentucky’s largest organization of school administrators has chosen its officers for 2020-2021.
New Kentucky Board of Education member Bowling said it is important for him to be of service to others. It’s a lesson he learned from his mother, who was born in Germany and spent 14 years of her life living in bomb shelters.