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Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 8:18 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky has opened the first tuition-free adult charter high school in the commonwealth on Wednesday.
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Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 7:56 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Jefferson County Public Schools is showing off a program that is training the next generation of the city’s first responders.
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Updated: Sep. 27, 2022 at 2:51 PM EDT
|By WAVE Staff
The Cal Ripken, Senior Foundation is partnered with Niagara Cares has volunteers there to help build the urban garden and café.
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Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 4:01 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
A graphic novel memoir that some parents wanted pulled from Jefferson County Public School library shelves will remain in schools.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 2:03 PM EDT
|By Olivia Russell
The West End School announced plans for a new building, creating the West End Girls School.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 1:47 PM EDT
|By WAVE Staff
A middle school in Louisville is helping families in the community as the season starts to change.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Jefferson County Public Schools said a parent waved a gun at a bus filled with students after a pickup on Thursday morning.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
The brief hold was due to a police chase where LMPD was attempting “to apprehend a violent felony offender.”
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 5:39 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Jefferson County Public Schools confirmed two weapons were found on Ballard High School students on Wednesday morning.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 1:48 PM EDT
|By Olivia Russell
The school held its own election for student council president and vice president.
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Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Kennedy Hayes
Thousands of Greater Clark County students will soon have two new spaces to learn and a new natatorium.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2022 at 3:31 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
The new building will be called the Ida B. Wells Hall.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 3:13 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
The Cardinal Bridge Academy program from UofL’s College of Business allows high school students to learn from college professors and staff on a variety of business courses.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 2:10 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
A Jefferson County Public Schools bus driver was honored on Tuesday for keeping students safe after a man was caught on camera getting onto the bus and threatening students.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 4:33 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Spearheaded by outgoing Congressman John Yarmuth, the RAMPS program will aim to prepare workers for automated workplaces of the future.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:57 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
This is the second year Butler High school has done this project to remember 9/11.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 3:44 PM EDT
|By Kennedy Hayes
This is the first time JCPS has built a new school in Southwest Jefferson County in almost 25 years.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 10:48 PM EDT
|By David Ochoa
Masks in schools is a debate that’s been going on for over two years. JCPS started the school year with a mask mandate, and starting Monday, masks will be optional.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2022 at 10:01 PM EDT
|By David Ochoa
Tasers and guns have already made their way onto local school campuses. It brings up the question, how safe are schools in Kentucky?
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 10:11 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
A Jefferson County Public School mother believes her daughter is being unfairly labeled as a bully after last week’s explosive school bus incident.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 4:36 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
These carts are equipped with a lot of material to engage classrooms of 25 students individually or in groups with more than 15 hands-on experiences.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 10:26 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
The Jefferson County Board of Education has voted to decrease the district’s real property tax rate for a second straight year.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 9:35 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
Delvantae King said his daughter has been a victim of bullying for several months.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 11:48 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
Bus #2047 was transporting students home from Carter Elementary School.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 5:15 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
The University of Louisville is hosting a series of events highlighting the journey to freedom for African-American descendants of enslaved persons ahead of next year’s Juneteenth.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 2:56 PM EDT
|By Charles Gazaway
Wilkerson Elementary received a temporary certificate of occupancy following an inspection Thursday
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 10:12 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt and Nick Picht
The lawsuit claims the officials acted in negligence leading to the death of Tyree, a student at Eastern High School who was shot and killed on Sept. 22, 2021.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 7:01 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Multiple students and staff members were evaluated at Western High School after being injured with pepper-spray during a fight on Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 5:05 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
The White House said 90% of debt relief will help people making less than $75,000 dollars a year.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 3:08 PM EDT
|By Mark Stevens
Brylyne Adcox's bus has been on time only once
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Bullitt Central High School confirmed details on a violent fight between multiple students happening outside the high school’s football facility on Friday night.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 3:24 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
The University of Louisville is teaming up with the JED Foundation, an organization that aims to strengthen mental health services for teens and young adults.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 2:13 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
Going to the fair is a state-wide excused absence.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 12:26 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education says college graduation rates are continuing to climb in the state although undergraduate enrollment has fallen.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2022 at 5:10 PM EDT
|By Kennedy Hayes
550 students are being added to Bellarmine University.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 11:24 PM EDT
|By David Ochoa
One less test for student athletes at JCPS to worry about, but it’s not one from the classroom. They no longer have to test negative for COVID to play sports.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 4:19 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
New audio technology is coming to each and every JCPS classroom.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 4:26 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
UofL is dealing with their largest freshman class ever, and they say the dorms they’ve built have accommodated that.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 11:02 PM EDT
|By David Ochoa
JCPS experienced another school bus mishap when a kindergartner with a sensory disorder ended up at the wrong school.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 8:16 PM EDT
|By Elisa Schwartzmiller
This deal will run through the end of the school year.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 4:43 PM EDT
|By Kennedy Hayes
JCPS has 66 safety administrators across the district’s schools. Each of the SAs are certified in threat management, active shooting drills, and trauma training.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 12:50 PM EDT
|By Olivia Russell
The Louisville Nature Center hosts Swallowtail Forest School, an outdoor preschool for kids ages 3-5.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 10:56 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
The Jefferson County Public School Board voted 4-3 Tuesday night not to amend the meeting’s agenda to discuss the district’s universal mask mandate.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 8:14 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
The five-floor building will accommodate 450 students in multiple one and two-bedroom units.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 6:35 PM EDT
|By David Mattingly
JCPS Superintendent Pollio described decisions on masking to be “excruciating,” acknowledging a sharply divided public.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Dustin Vogt
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron penned an open letter to the commonwealth’s largest school district to end its mandatory mask mandate.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 11:09 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
Dominique Johnson, 33, was killed when his car was hit from behind by an alleged drunk driver.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 6:00 PM EDT
|By Natalia Martinez and Dustin Vogt
It took less than one week into the new school year for Jefferson County Public Schools to see its first gun brought to school.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2022 at 10:44 PM EDT
|By David Ochoa
Two and a half years later and the mask debate rages on. Conversations had at the start of the pandemic are still being had now in Jefferson County Public Schools.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 4:34 PM EDT
|By David Mattingly
A new state law, House Bill 63, requires public school districts in Kentucky to have an armed officer patrolling every school campus.