Owen County

It’s time to take a second look at CTE

Too often in the past we’ve thought of career and technical education as being an alternative pathway for students who, for one reason or another, weren’t going to attend a college or a university. It is time for all of us in the Commonwealth to realize that CTE is for everyone.

By |2022-10-03T12:07:52-04:00February 7, 2017|

Arnold receives 2016 Kevin M. Noland Award

At the Kentucky Board of Education meeting in Frankfort April 13, Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt presented the 2016 Kevin M. Noland Award to Laura Arnold, associate commissioner for the Office of Career and Technical Education at the Kentucky Department of Education.

By |2018-07-23T14:09:28-04:00April 14, 2016|

Planning for tomorrow today

More than 2,000 Kentucky public school students visited Kentucky State University in Frankfort as part of the month-long push to get students thinking about life after high school.

By |2018-08-23T15:02:16-04:00March 22, 2016|

Ready to learn

Districts across the state are trying new ways to increase kindergarten readiness.

By |2018-12-03T15:36:31-05:00April 7, 2015|

Hundreds gather in Louisville for 21st CCLC Conference

The 2014 21st Century Community Learning Centers Multi-State Conference brought together directors from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana to share best practices and innovations in after-school and summer programming.

By |2018-09-24T15:03:45-04:00October 2, 2014|

Students get their tech on at STLP State Championship

By Amy Wallot amy.wallot@education.ky.gov More than 5,000 students filled the Lexington Convention Center April 22 for the Student Technology Leadership Program’s annual state championship. The day was packed with competitions involving coding challenges, robotics design and programming, entrepreneurial tech startup business plans, networking challenges, aviation technology, digital game and app design challenges It's always fun for me to watch students working [...]

By |2014-04-29T11:25:37-04:00May 1, 2014|

Twelve Kentucky school districts receive major grant

An $8.8 million, three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support teachers and students in 12 school districts, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) announced today. This investment, known as an “Integration Grant,” will support the integration of several critical streams of work – measures of effective teaching, implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the [...]

By |2019-11-15T14:45:04-05:00September 19, 2011|
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