Lexington School Superintendent Denies Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Lexington's Mary E. Britton Middle School, which is now under construction, will have gender-neutral bathrooms which boys and girls will share. However, Superintendent Demetrus Liggins told the Kentucky legislature's Interim Joint Committee on Education that the goal...
Kentucky’s Amendment 2 Receives National Attention
Kentucky’s Amendment 2 would empower parents and give families more options for the best education fit for their children. Now, the vote is getting attention from a prominent national newspaper. The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board is encouraging Kentuckians to...
Baby Box Info Coming to Kentucky High Schools
Kentucky Right to Life announced that it will sponsor posters in high schools across the state that list the baby box hotline number. This is in response to House Bill 272. The bill passed unanimously earlier this year and it requires that the number be displayed in...
Would Amendment 2 Send Tax Dollars to Church Schools?
School choice critic John Schaaf recently wrote a column criticizing the Amendment 2 initiative, which empowers parents with more education options for their children. He implied that the amendment would unjustly give vouchers for religious schools. However, Amendment...
Democrats Support Choice About Motherhood, Not Schools
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, addressed the Democratic National Convention. In her speech, she accused Republicans of “gutting funding for public schools.” This was a veiled reference to school choice efforts like Kentucky’s...
Utility Prices Hurt Ky’s Poor
A news article from the Kentucky Lantern recently showed that increased utility costs are hurting Kentucky’s poor. Kentucky Power’s president also acknowledged that electricity bills are higher for those who are least likely to afford them. This is in light of a...
Ky Poised to Drop Income Tax Again
Kentucky met certain benchmarks in order for us to move towards eliminating the state income tax. It will be dropped 0.5% or a half percentage point beginning in 2026, that's if it's approved in the upcoming legislative session. This shows that the economy is doing...
The Dignity of Work
Too many Americans have a low view of work today. 16% of prime working age men between ages of 25-54 have dropped out of the workforce. Work is demeaned as a means to an end so one can simply consume, and a way to get money in order to retire, hopefully at an early...
Labor Day 2024
Today marks the unofficial end of summer. It’s Labor Day, which became a federal holiday in 1894 after the labor movement fought for safer work places, an 8 hour work day, fair wages, and the end to child labor. Those goals were eventually realized. But Labor Day also...
SCOTUS Blocks Biden Title IX Rules Enforcement
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Biden’s Administration’s Title IX rules, which would overturn policies to protect women's sports and female-only spaces in public schools. The Court upheld common sense laws in 26 states, including Kentucky, that kept...
