Cinci Fringe Festival features NKU project’s new films presenting insightful dialogue on race
By Vicki Prichard NKyTribune correspondent Northern Kentucky University’s Mourning the Creation of Racial Categories, (MCRC) Project is presenting two new…
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Newport school board rejects provision for repeating grades, provides programs to help students catch up
The Newport Board of Education has unanimously voted to reject the provisions of a recently-enacted state law that allows students…
KBE seeking nominations for the 2021 Joseph W. Kelly Award for Business and Education Partnership
By Jacob Perkins Kentucky Teacher The Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) is accepting nominations for the Kelly Award for Business…
Gateway, Grant County Public Library team up to allow students, faculty, staff to apply for library cards
Gateway Community & Technical College and Grant County Public Library (GCPL) completed a memorandum of agreement that gives Gateway students,…
NKU’s Bonita Brown appointed to Education Design Lab’s Designers in Residence program
Northern Kentucky University’s Bonita Brown has been appointed to the Education Design Lab’s Designers in Residence program. The Education Design…
Beckfield College in Florence is hosting open house on June 11, tour campus, get snacks — and prizes
Beckfield College is hosting their first, post-pandemic on-campus Open House on June 11 from 3–5 p.m. The event is open…
State-funded per child preschool rates cut for 2021-2022 due to decreased enrollment during pandemic
By Jacqueline Thompson Kentucky Teacher The Kentucky Board of Education (KBE) heard this week how the preschool per-child funding rates…
Three from NKY among 48 from across state to serve on Kentucky Coalition for Advancing Education
A group of 48 Kentuckians representing various facets of the state’s education community has accepted to serve on the Kentucky…
3,500 graduating seniors from 16 area districts to receive Essential Workplace Ethics Certificate
How does a region let employers, in the face of a workforce shortage, know that there is a wealth of…
Tiffany Gruen named new principal at Howell Elementary School; spent 15 years in NKY schools
The Site-Based Decision-Making Council (SBDM) at Howell Elementary School has unanimously selected Tiffany Gruen as the school’s new principal. She…
Campbell County Public Library kicks off summer reading Wild About Books — win prizes
Campbell County Public Library’s Summer Reading program kicks off Saturday, June 5 with registration opening at 9 a.m. at the…
Kentucky Department of Education kicks of summer learning initiative promoting literacy and mathematics
The Kentucky Department of Education has launched its Summer Boost: Reading and Mathematics Program, along with a series of Summer…
Covington Board of Education approves spending plan to help combat educational impact of COVID-19
To address student learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, Covington Independent Public Schools will host a longer summer session, enroll…
Seven Northern Kentucky high school students selected for Gatton Academy Class of 2023
Seven Northern Kentucky High School sophomores are among 101 from across the state selected for The Gatton Academy of Mathematics…
Simon Kenton English Teacher Leann Lewis named Kentucky Education Association Teacher of the Year
Leann Lewis, a ninth-grade English teacher at Simon Kenton High School, has been awarded the 2021 Kentucky Education Association (KEA)…
Northern Kentucky University offering new degree pathway for law enforcement, criminal justice officers
Northern Kentucky University is offering college credit for criminal justice training, creating a pathway for law enforcement and corrections officers…
Department of Education releases 2019-2020 financial transparency data on Kentucky School Report Card
Kentucky residents can now see how much schools spend per student and other financial expenditures with a new update of…
Thomas More student Michael Thompson debuts art show ‘Strange Fruit’; aims to tell stories through art
Part of an occasional series about the how the area’s college students are coping with the pandemic By Natalie Hamren…
Gateway confers 1,900 credentials; 30 high school students earned associate degrees
Gateway Community & Technical College conferred over 1,900 credentials upon more than 1,300 candidates for graduation and 84 general equivalency…
Cooper sophomore Johnathan Brewer is top winner of statewide essay contest on KY’s election system
Johnathan Brewer, a sophomore at Cooper High School in Boone County, has been named a winner of Kentucky Secretary of…
NKU’s School of the Arts — Theatre + Dance — ready to get past pandemic — announces 21-22 season
Northern Kentucky University University’s School of the Arts has taken a proactive approach to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing…
Step out of the pandemic into a safari — the Cicada Safari; become a citizen scientist. They’re coming!
There are at least 125,000 citizen scientists eagerly awaiting the 17-year Brood X cicadas, which is emerging in parts of…