Gov. Andy Beshear announced the new executive order Tuesday.
After a school year remembered for virtual learning and hybrid scheduling during the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming academic term will feel more normal with students back in classes five days per week.
JCPS has about 200 teaching vacancies in classrooms throughout the district, primarily because of the recently expanded Pathfinder School of Innovation and newly created positions thanks to federal COVID-19 relief funding.
Woven throughout JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio's remarks was his call for teachers to be guiding lights for their students for all 175 days of the upcoming school year.
Students in Jefferson County Public Schools will have to follow many of the coronavirus-related routines they learned last year when the 2021-22 school year begins next week.
JCPS is looking ahead to the new school year with kids back in the classroom and in the cafeteria.
The Jefferson County Board of Education voted 6-0 on the new requirement for the 2021-22 school year, which begins Aug. 11, during a Tuesday board meeting.
Clarksville Schools and One Vision Credit Union are accepting donations of new school supplies and money for the annual event.
The school board is slated to determine Tuesday the masking policy of Jefferson County Public Schools, which currently requires unvaccinated teachers and staff to wear masks inside buildings and everyone to wear face coverings while on school buses during summer programming, for the start of the 2021-22 school year.
Hundreds of kids are enrolled in the district's Ready 4 K camp — more this year than ever before, coming off the last year of the pandemic.