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By Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Kentucky News Connection reporting for The Hechinger Report-Public News Service Collaboration Haley Autumn Dawn Ann Crank thinks she might like to become a teacher. There’s a shortage of teachers in this corner of Kentucky, and Crank, who has eight siblings, gets kids. “I just fit in with them,” Crank said during a shift one February day at the Big Blue Smokehouse, where she works as a ...

Its Teacher Appreciation Week, and theres some mixed news when it comes to how well South Dakota is compensating its teachers. According to the National Education Associations annual Rankings and Estimates report, the national average teacher salary increased about 4% to nearly $70,000 a year between the 2021 and 2022 school years. But adjusted for inflation, teachers still make 5% less than they did a decade ago. ...

It’s Spring 2024 in the Bluegrass State. And if I am writing about sports, I should be focused on new basketball coaches and the Derby and the PGA Championship at Valhalla. But as I reflect on the 2

Welcome, Derby visitors! Here’s our annual handicapping of Kentucky’s political horses amid the pageantry of the 150th iteration of America’s oldest continuously held sporting event. The political star of the Derby TV show, for about 30 seconds during the trophy presentation, is the governor. His name is Andy Beshear. That may sound familiar. He’s in […] The post Al Cross handicaps Kentucky’s political field appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.

LOUISVILLE — Several dozen Louisville political and community leaders gathered outside the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts on Monday to celebrate the city’s wins in the recently passed biennial budget.

Welcome, Derby visitors. Here’s our annual handicapping of Kentucky’s political horses amid the pageantry of the 150th iteration of America’s oldest continuously held sporting event.The poli

Louisville’s government was given $111 million from state reserves to spend this budget cycle. Fayette County got $10 million. Why the disparity?

TRI-COUNTY — As the Kentucky General Assembly ended their legislative session for 2024, Senate President Robert Stivers secured funding for various projects in Whitley and Knox counties.

About 30 Louisville entities will receive $700 million in state funding over the next two years.

When Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman told state lawmakers in January about the budget needs of his office, Rep. Patrick Flannery, R-Olive Hill, asked if he needed more resources to