JCPS return to school: Louisville students head back to the classroom
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At long last, some of Louisville's public school students are back in classrooms. In-person classes resumed Wednesday for about 7,000 kindergarten through second grade students in Jefferson County Public Schools, the first time kids in Kentucky's largest district entered classrooms since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life last March. Teachers and staff were buzzing with excitement at Bowen Elementary, 1601 Roosevelt Ave., before the first buses and cars with students arrived around 8:30 a.m. Lisa Wathen, principal of the school in Lyndon, said about 150 of Bowen's r...