The Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE’s) Commissioner’s Student Advisory Council met on Oct. 18, where members discussed the Kentucky Board of Education’s 2024 legislative priorities with Meredith Brewer, KDE’s executive director of education policy.
David McCoy, a high school welding teacher at Pleasure Ridge Park High School (Jefferson County Public Schools), has been named a winner of the 2023 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence. The price comes with $50,000 for his school’s welding program.
Barren County High School students are preparing for their annual farm-to-table hog roast dinner, where they have an active role in producing and processing the meat served at the community-wide event.
Career and technical education (CTE) prepares students for postsecondary life, allowing them to pursue their interests and match their skills to careers. Special education students, however, have not always had the same opportunity to engage with CTE as their peers.
Schools in Scott and Fayette counties and the Ignite Institute in Boone County will receive grants of up to $5.7 million from the Toyota USA Foundation to help prepare students for future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
More than 2,000 Career and Technical Education (CTE) leaders from across Kentucky’s school districts, postsecondary institutions and industries came together in July at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville for the 2023 CTE Summer Program.
Greenup County Schools was selected for a $14.9 million energy efficiency grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Renew America’s Schools program, which will support improvements in K–12 schools across the country.
Resting on a hill overlooking the town of Martin, the Floyd County School of Innovation (FCSI) provides students with career and technical education (CTE) experiences. When it opened its doors in 2020, it became a beacon of opportunity for computer science, engineering, healthcare and, as of 2021, agriculture education.
Barren County is like many rural areas throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky: a close-knit community with a trades-based economy. Recognizing this, community leaders, including fiscal court officials, came together with a task for Barren County Area Technology Center students.
Students participating in one of 32 different career and technical education (CTE) programs across Kentucky got the chance to show what they are learning at the Kentucky State Capitol on Feb. 21.