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Parent involvement and support is critical to the success of each child, school and to the school district.

For the past week or so, Melanie Williams and her son Hunter have been playing kindergarten

While children across Kentuckiana were trying to stretch out the last weeks of summer, teachers like Erika Walker were preparing for school to start.

The Catholic School Athletic Association will require coaches to monitor the heat index every day during practice this season. Coaches will use handheld monitors to measure and keep daily records.

Officials at Fern Creek High are determined this school year to get more freshmen on course to start their second year as sophomores.

WASHINGTON — Like a seesaw on the school playground, falling state budgets are pushing class sizes higher.

Education is always in flux, as new methods are tried and old methods recycled. But the cacophony for change has grown along with heightened concerns -- in Kentucky and nationally

Thirty-nine Jefferson County parents whose children had as many as 52 unexcused absences this school year have been criminally charged for their children's chronic truancy.

July 12, 2009 - The most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows that the percentage of Kentucky high schoolers who are physically active has increased to 38.9 percent in 2009, up from 32.9 percent in 2007,

Later this month, the state board of education will have to choose from among candidates with differing experiences to help lead Kentucky into its next phase of school reform as the state's education commissioner