The News Archive

Immense pressure built into school isn’t consistent with supporting students’ mental health.

This is the third installment of Down the Drain on bathroom policy, from time to actually get to the bathroom to the lack of accessible, gender neutral bathrooms.

This is the second installment of Down the Drain on what happens in a school bathroom besides the obvious, from vaping to vandalism, and bathroom safety.

This is the first installment of Down the Drain on bathroom maintenance (and who pays for messiness) and school bathroom privacy.

Across Kentucky, young people are taking to heart MLK’s admonition from a Birmingham jail cell that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

How we teach environmental education in Kentucky is crucial not only for our planet, but for the future of our generation.

Our schools' primary stakeholders may be too young to vote for those who represent us on our district school boards, but we're note too young to have a voice in the process. Our Youth-Led Virtual Town Hall was centered around ways to make Kentucky schools more equitable. We pushed candidates to share their plans to make resources more accessible to underserved students as well as to better support our district’s educators.  

Today is Election Day and we, as 16 and 17-year-olds, do not have the right to vote for matters that impact us more than anyone.

Click into The New Edu inaugural Journalist Fellows sounding off on their hopes for The New Edu.

A rural Kentucky student examines how the critical race theory debate is playing out in our schools and communities.

Members of the KSVT Press Corps reflect on the structural level of what school means. Read a lightly edited roundtable transcript from September 26, 2022.

Students should have a say in their schools, which means they should have a say in how issues of education justice are shared, reported, and written about, too. That's why KSVT is launching The New Edu.

How racial and gender stereotyping hinder student success

Why we need to talk more about mental health in school

Why we need to do more to confront unconscious bias in school

We must do more to stop bullying in school.

What it takes to defy stereotypes of Asian females in school

How the burdens of dyslexia set students up for a lifetime of inequity

A middle schooler’s take on how to improve the learning climate for LGBTQ+ youth

Undressing gender discrimination in school dress codes