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LOUISVILLE, Ky. A Kentucky bill that will help Simmons College, the Commonwealth’s oldest historically Black college and university (HBCU), produce more Black teachers and be more competitive is now under consideration in the Kentucky House of Representatives. The state Senate passed the bill unanimously last week.
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A bill passed by the Kentucky Senate, now before the House, would allow education accreditation at Simmons College
It would allow the school to establish a degree program that would produce more teachers for the state.
Simmons College president Kevin Cosby said if the measure becomes law, the achievement gap would close in Kentucky.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Born on August 17, 1934 and raised in Wheeler, Alabama, Reverend Charles Elliott Jr. of King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church in Louisville has lived through a lot in his 86 years.
“We’d go down there to get wood because we didn’t have no electric lights or running water. So we’d go in the woods there, and you’d see a Black man hanging. [A] white man didn’t go to jail for nothing he did to a Black person,” Elliott said.
Growing up during the Jim Crow era, Elliott also remembered having to get off the sidewalk to let white people walk by.