Milken award winner helping students, colleagues excel
Laura Cole, a mathematics teacher in Kenton County who was the recipient of a Milken Educator Award, chose teaching over accounting and has impacted both students and fellow teachers.
How Harrison County handled being the first Kentucky school district impacted by COVID-19
Harry Burchett, superintendent of Harrison County schools, explains how he and his staff handled being the first Kentucky school district to cease in-person classes because of COVID-19.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | Time and situation right for Coleman to champion public education
Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, an ex officio member of the Kentucky Board of Education, has made Kentucky’s public education system a top priority since being elected and named secretary of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
KBE SPOTLIGHT: Aaron Thompson believes every child should have the chance to learn
Aaron Thompson knows the power of a good education. His life is a testament to education’s value and he’s lived in service of it most of his adult life.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | For three decades, Holly Bloodworth has been educating Kentuckians
Holly Bloodworth, the 2014 Kentucky Teacher of the Year who spent 32 years teaching at Murray Elementary School, originally planned on being a nurse during her first three years at Murray State University.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | Cody Pauley Johnson brings a voice to Eastern Kentucky
Kentucky Board of Education member Cody Pauley Johnson hopes to tackle the decline of jobs in the Eastern Kentucky region by putting an emphasis on education.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | Education was Patrice McCrary’s ‘yellow brick road’
After public education changed the course of her life, Patrice McCrary spent more than 30 years as a classroom teacher and teacher leader, and now she is lending her voice to the Kentucky Board of Education.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | JoAnn Adams’ roots in Kentucky public education run deep
Kentucky Board of Education member JoAnn Adams taught for 33 years. She comes from a family of teachers that included her mother, grandmother, grandfather, great-grandmother and now, her daughter.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | Mike Bowling learned to serve from mother, high school civics teacher
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.
KBE SPOTLIGHT | Sharon Porter Robinson brings interest in education policy to board
After a long career in education, self-described policy wonk Sharon Porter Robinson is working to close the gap between education policy and practice as a member of the Kentucky Board of Education.
