Jefferson County Public Schools students left Thursday afternoon for the start of summer vacation. When they return in August, things will be a bit different across the district.
All three schools are scheduled to be finished by the end of summer break.
The unnamed school, which Superintendent Marty Pollio has said he wants open by December 2022 or January 2023, will be connected to the Republic Bank Foundation YMCA on West Broadway.
The board is scheduled to discuss Tuesday moving the Grace James Academy – an all-girls magnet school that features an Afrocentric curriculum focused in science, technology, engineering, arts and math – to Roosevelt-Perry once it merges with Wheatley Elementary School in August.
The new schools would affect communities in West Louisville, South Dixie, East Louisville and Newburg.
Superintendent Mary Pollio must decide if he will follow the recommendations of state audits calling for the removal of several school principals.
A Louisville teacher is responding to criticism about a Civil Rights-themed music video she helped her students create over the summer.
The student group called "The Real Young Prodigy's" learned about the struggle for civil rights and traveled to Alabama to visit historical sites like the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
The Boy Scouts of America are working with students from Wheatley Elementary.