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  • Fayette school budget includes student insurance, raise for new teachers

    The Fayette County Schools plan to provide free accident insurance for all students starting next fall, and to raise starting pay for teachers to $40,000 per year.Those proposals — firsts for the district — are contained in the Fayette School's 2011-2012 tentative budget, which the...

  • Education notes: May 11

    Awards/honors■ Twenty-nine teams from Fayette County Public Schools participated in this year's STLP RCX regional robotics competition, hosted by Georgetown College. The Northern Knights of Northern Elementary won the elementary division, and the LTMS Blackcats from Lexington Traditional...

  • Fayette school board could hire superintendent next month

    The Fayette County Board of Education could select a new school superintendent before mid-June, according to a tentative schedule worked out Monday afternoon.The board has said it wants to have a new superintendent in place by July 1 to succeed Stu Silberman, who announced in February that he is...

  • Mother, daughter graduate together from UK

    Tonya Jones said she couldn't have received a better Mother's Day present than seeing her daughter Jackie graduate with a degree in history from the University of Kentucky. Tonya had a front-row seat. She also received a degree in history from UK on Sunday. "I decided I wasn't going to let her finish...

  • Todd bows out with 3 speeches

    Lee T. Todd Jr. delivered his final commencement address —three of them, in fact — as president of the University of Kentucky on Sunday, as UK granted degrees to more than 4,100 graduates.UK had three graduation ceremonies, and Todd spoke at all of them.He told the graduates at the...

  • The Lexington School buys neighboring James Lane Allen estate

    The Lexington School has bought Scarlet Gate, the estate where Lexington author James Lane Allen lived in the late 1800s.Charles Baldecchi, head of the Lexington School, said there is no immediate plan for the 12.6-acre property, east of the private school on Lane Allen Road, which is named for ...

  • UK professor helps former prisoner graduate

    For two years, retired University of Kentucky professor Joe Wilson taught college chemistry to Robert Ross, who was in federal prison.Wilson mailed Ross's homework and exams to him and graded the work Ross sent back. In 2009, when Ross was released from prison and enrolled in regular classes at ...

  • UK gets $6.9 million federal grant to help reduce reliance on imported oil

    The University of Kentucky has received a $6.9 million federal grant to help reduce America's reliance on imported oil, one of eight awards in the country."It's going to be big," said UK's principal investigator, Sue Nokes, a professor in the department of biosystems and agricultural engineering...

  • UK College of Design project to be included in international exhibition

    The University of Kentucky's College of Design received confirmation Wednesday that its project, Kentucky River Cities: Louisville, Paducah, Henderson, will be included in the 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam next April.The architecture and urban planning exhibition, held every ...

  • Graduation dates set at area high schools

    It's time for caps and gowns. Across Central Kentucky, members of the Class of 2011 will be collecting their high school diplomas over the next few weeks.Here's a schedule of commencement exercises at various area high schools:

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