The Kentucky General Assembly passed several education-related bills during the 2024 and 2025 legislative sessions that take effect this school year, impacting students, teachers, and school staff across the state.
A Kentucky House panel has advanced a bill that would require public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each day.
Beshear led a statewide moment of silence Friday morning to pay tribute to the victims.
Dozens of staff members from churches and other faith organizations prayed and marched together around Emanuel Baptist Church to engage in conversations about change.
Six people were shot and three of them killed in the incident.