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Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 6:09 PM EST
|By Ken Baker
It’s being call the first-of-its-kind educational roadway in the nation.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 5:23 PM EST
|By Dustin Vogt
Police responded to reports of a stabbing on Cane Run Road near Linwood Avenue around 3 p.m.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 3:39 PM EST
|By Natalia Martinez
On Monday morning, officers responded to Western High School after a student was suspected of having a weapon.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 at 6:28 PM EST
|By Tori Gessner
Counselors said education needs to go beyond the books and focus on solving the root cause of the violence.
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Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 8:15 PM EST
|By Natalia Martinez and Dustin Vogt
Cell phone video has captured the moment when a student appears to pull a gun on another student at Iroquois High School on Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 5:25 PM EST
|By Dustin Vogt
Over the weekend of Nov. 13 and 14, the school district set up vaccine clinics at 24 sites helping to administer vaccines for children.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM EST
|By Tori Gessner
Jefferson County Public Schools has discovered at least ten guns on campus so far this year.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 1:51 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Kentucky State University leaders detailed a dire financial situation on Tuesday in Frankfort, predicting a $23 million cash shortfall in 2022.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 7:24 PM EST
|By Ken Baker
There is an ongoing push to replace the dwindling workforce at the pharmacy counter.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 3:33 PM EST
|By Shellie Sylvestri
In a letter sent to Moore HS parents and families, Principal Traci Morris Hunt she said the weapon “was never used in a threatening manner.”
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Updated: Nov. 12, 2021 at 8:07 PM EST
|By Ken Baker
JCPS and others offer vaccine clinics this weekend to vaccinate 5 to 11-year-olds.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 8:06 PM EST
|By Tori Gessner
On Thursday, Oldham County high schoolers were able to choose whether they wanted to wear a mask in school. Soon, all students, staff, and visitors will have the same option.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 6:35 PM EST
|By Tori Gessner
In a forum held Wednesday, LMPD chief Erika Shields, Jefferson County School Board member James Craig, and University of Louisville associate dean Dr. Cherie Dawson-Edwards attempted to answer the question, “do we need officers in schools?”
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 3:33 PM EST
|By Dustin Vogt
The learning hub will operate on Mondays through Fridays for JCPS K-12 students.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2021 at 12:00 AM EST
|By Olivia Russell
Jefferson County Public Schools are now testing all students involved in after-school activities for COVID-19.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 12:56 PM EDT
|By WKYT News Staff
In July, after members of the KSU Board of Regents and CPE voiced concerns about the university’s financial status, Gov. Beshear requested and authorized the assessment from CPE.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2021 at 12:31 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
The students are being disciplined by JCPS in accordance with its policies and procedures.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By David Mattingly
Possible disciplinary actions range from suspensions to criminal charges.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 5:31 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
The discussion on Monday focused on how to improve Kentucky’s education system.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 3:11 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Principal Stacie Gamble said in a letter to parents that the student, who attends Liberty High School in Newburg, was discovered with the weapon after another student told staff members about it.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 2:03 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Starting Monday, students will be tested weekly if they want to stay in their respective activities.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2021 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Jerrica Valtierra
Finding childcare is one of the most difficult challenges for working families.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2021 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
A vaccine clinic inside one school is one of the ways JCPS is being proactive to keep students in the classroom. It also gave some future nurses a chance to make a difference.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2021 at 1:38 PM EDT
|By Ethan Sirles
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a childhood book gifting program which has gotten international recognition since its start in 1995.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 4:43 PM EDT
|By Charles Gazaway and Tori Gessner
The accelerated nursing degree program is a one year program which will allow people with a prior bachelor’s degree in another field to earn a second degree in nursing.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 1:31 PM EDT
|By Phylicia Ashley
The Mack Foundation is helping Louisville children shoot their best shot at learning.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 12:34 AM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
All students riding school buses are still required to wear masks due to a federal mandate.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2021 at 2:04 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
JCPS Explore Academies will start with six middle schools, but Superintendent Dr. Marty Pollio said he has hopes of moving them to even more schools.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2021 at 12:42 AM EDT
|By Olivia Russell
It comes as assaults and thefts have risen around campus.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By Tori Gessner
As COVID-19 cases continue to drop across Kentucky, so do masking requirements inside some WAVE Country classrooms.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 1:01 PM EDT
|By Sean Baute
Police say a "credible threat" was made to the schools on Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2021 at 11:34 PM EDT
|By James Dobson
Students will maybe be able to spend less time in quarantine and more in the classroom thanks to the new policy.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 5:12 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
This is the sixth gun found at a JCPS school this school year.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 4:27 PM EDT
|By Jerrica Valtierra
In August, a fight that was caught on camera in the PRP High School cafeteria showed a student reaching into his bag; police would later find a pellet gun in the trash outside the school.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 2:33 PM EDT
|By Phylicia Ashley
After two delayed starts, a pandemic and a school year later, East Hardin Middle School students will finally get to use their new campus.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 6:05 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri
Pollio’s contract renewal will be effective starting April 1, 2022.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By Phylicia Ashley
The Louisville Automation and Robotics Research Institute opened Monday in the J.B. Speed School Innovation Center on Arthur Street.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 5:17 PM EDT
|By Tori Gessner
Kentucky Department of Education offered to reimburse school districts that pay educators $100 for being fully vaccinated by the end of the year.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 7:52 PM EDT
|By Natalia Martinez
JCPS Superintendent Dr. Marty Pollio said that he worries about the possibility of a school shooting every single day.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
Two loaded guns were found in two JCPS schools in a 24-hour span.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:25 PM EDT
|By Charles Gazaway, Natalia Martinez and Shellie Sylvestri
The weapon was found in the student's backpack.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 2:17 PM EDT
|By Phylicia Ashley
The students will get a whole new experience in learning thanks to Verizon.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 8:07 PM EDT
|By Olivia Russell
The new meeting will be held at 2:15 p.m. Thursday at the Vanhoose Education Center.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By Natalia Martinez and Shellie Sylvestri
This is the fourth gun found at a JCPS school in two months.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 6:52 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
School resource officers were removed from JCPS schools in 2019.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 3:52 PM EDT
|By Shellie Sylvestri and Olivia Russell
“If I could die outside of school because of guns, what makes you think I want to be around guns inside of school?” one child, a JCPS student, said.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 5:34 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
The Jefferson County school board plans to vote on plans for the two testing options Tuesday night.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 5:01 PM EDT
|By David Mattingly
School administrators are trying to get out in front of a potential threat from social media.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2021 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Maira Ansari and Ken Baker
On September 22, Tyree was shot and killed while waiting for his bus stop in the Russell neighborhood.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 7:57 PM EDT
|By Nick Picht
William Willhoite worked as a school resource officer in Fern Creek High School and in Bullitt East High School.