School News from around Kentucky

• Fayette County's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School journalism students recently had two of their projects broadcast on WUKY 91.3 radio.
• Veterans Park Elementary has been certified as a Parent Involvement School of Excellence by the National Parent Teacher Association, the second in Fayette County along with Cassidy School.
• Students from Covington's Holmes High School earned top-10 finishes in a national industry-skills competition.
• Medical: Kentucky Ranked 45th in Nation on quality of its health care in Commonwealth Fund Report.
• UK's Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Receives National Recognition.
• The first annual Tour de Kentucky, sponsored by the UK Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute, is a 70-mile trek to benefit the American Heart Association.
• Henry Clay graduate Vanessa M. Dimayuga, is one of UK’s newest Fulbright fellows. The graduating senior majored in biology and will travel to the Netherlands to do research.
• Fallsburg Elementary School Sustains Heavy Fire Damage. Lawrence County Board of Education plans for repairs and portables.
• Frankfort 7th & 8th graders gets new name, schedule.
• Shelby County board discussed procedures and timelines for replacing superintendent Elaine Farris.
• Summer meals program thriving in Carter Co. Schools, including children in 20 community Bible schools.
• New initiative in Oldham County Schools to improve literacy.
• Blavatt says current SEEK funding formula doesn't take Boone County's growth into consideration.
• Site chosen for 17 million Robertson County school.
• KSBA says KY superintendents seek greater flexibility in state’s K-12 budget process.
• New Superintendent Sheldon Berman is eager to tackle challenges in Jefferson County.
• Superintendents of Hardin County and Elizabethtown Independent school districts said, at least at the surface, there seem to be no local implications of a Supreme Court ruling.
• Supreme Court decision in Brentwood could have a "significant impact" on athletics in the commonwealth, KHSAA Commissioner says.
• Franklin County Board of Education welcomed new Superintendent Harrie Buecker.
• Ten percent ‘stuff’ and 90 percent dreamin’ and schemin’ - a KSBA conversation with Barbara Erwin.
• Cumberland County Schools – the only Kentucky public school district in the bulls-eye of a Wolf Creek dam failure – forming an emergency response plan.
• Glasgow Elementary students add Iowa test for grades K-5 in math and reading.
• School district is expected to collect an amount of money equal to what Webster County and Providence school districts received last year, $14 million.
• Hardin County Schools to implement electronic phone messaging system, call 1,000 parents per minute, reminders and emergencies.
• Attny General says right to privacy is a factor in Open Records.
• The Kentucky Press Association joins a national web site for posting public notice ads.