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Colleges request more funding

FRANKFORT — Kentucky's public colleges and universities are requesting a collective 4.6 percent increase in state funding next year that includes a $25 million wish list for academic programs in case the state's bleak financial picture brightens.

Youngsters get taste of military life

Almost 400 youngsters from around the United States and seven foreign counties have trained this summer at the U.S. Army Cadet Corps' training center in Millersburg. Recruits and cadets, plus a contingent of Junior ROTC members, got a full taste of military life, from marching to marksmanship to mopping floors.

Students learn about medicine at UK camp

Jessica Whelan, 16, once read her entire biology textbook for fun.

Scott school tested for radon

GEORGETOWN — High radon levels discovered at a Scott County elementary school have created a frenzy among some parents and caused school leaders to relocate a first-grade classroom and cancel gym classes.

Fayette schools short by $3.2 million

Fayette County Public Schools expect revenues from various taxing and interest sources to decline by $3.2 million in the current school year's working budget as a result of the sagging economy.

Community college tenure could be ditched under new proposal

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System's board of regents has launched a spirited debate over potentially abandoning the tenure system for future faculty members.

U Kentucky foresees hiring freeze, tuition hike

The University of Kentucky would drain most of its reserve funds for classroom improvements and scholarships and freeze hiring for as many as 150 positions if forced to cut its budget by 4 percent.

Kentucky schools look to contingency funds in face of cuts

Many Kentucky school districts probably would have to dip into contingency funds to absorb a projected 4 percent state budget cut, but that might only postpone the pain, public school superintendents say.

Ky. school districts asked to outline cuts

State Education Commissioner Jon Draud Wednesday gave Kentucky's public school superintendents until noon Dec. 3 to report how a 4 percent budget cut would affect operations in their districts.

U of L to join largest study of U.S. children ever undertaken

WASHINGTON — The largest study of U.S. children ever performed — aiming to track 100,000 from conception to age 21 — will start recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January. And the University of Louisville, which has received a grant for the study, will begin to do so in 2010.

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