Cursive Requirements Returning to Kentucky Classrooms

Cursive requirements returning to Kentucky classrooms

Cursive writing will return as a requirement in the classroom beginning this fall. Senate Bill 167, passed in 2024, ensures that cursive is taught in all elementary schools across the state.Many school districts in central Kentucky, including schools Clark, Jessamine, and Woodford counties, already taught cursive writing to their students. The new law, however, sets expectations across the state for the style of handwriting to be taught.I was th…

Kentucky schools ready for new year, new laws

Advances in technology are often celebrated until those same advances become deterrents to learning. Kentucky lawmakers voiced those specific concerns before both chambers successfully passed two pieces of legislation aimed at school districts statewide. Gov. Andy Beshear signed Senate Bill…

Law requires schools to add info about sextortion: Caverna

By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 A new law will have more Kentucky children learning about sexual extortion during their school days. In an effort to comply with now-law Senate Bill 73, which requires districts to educate students in fourth grade and above about sextortion and information on “entities offering assistance to victims,” Caverna Independent School Superintendent Amanda Abell said the district has “multi-faceted approach to educate…