Isabella Edghill

The fall of the ‘Summer Job’: teen employment crisis

This reported piece explores how teens struggled to find summer employment, and what that means for job searches moving forward.

8.14.2025

Learning

New report reveals state of civic education in Kentucky

From interactions with digital media, to registering to vote, to life skills like paying taxes, a new report from the Kentucky Student Voice Team highlights why it is crucial that students receive adequate civic education.

5.21.2025

The Case for Student Journalism

In this three-part series, Campus to Community: High School Journalism in Kentucky, Isabella Edghill examines the challenges facing student newspapers and the importance of student journalism to communities. Part one highlights the benefits of student journalism to schools, communities, democracy, and student journalists themselves.

4.24.2025

Classes on the Chopping Block, AI, and Newsprint as 'Retro': The State of Kentucky Student Journalism

In this three-part series, Campus to Community: High School Journalism in Kentucky, Isabella Edghill examines the challenges facing student newspapers and the importance of student journalism to communities. Part two explores how changing technology, access issues, and more impact student journalism.

4.24.2025

Advocacy Groups Fight for Student Journalism

In this three-part series, Campus to Community: High School Journalism in Kentucky, Isabella Edghill examines the challenges facing student newspapers and the importance of student journalism to communities. Part three explores how journalists and advocates continue to fight for student journalism.

4.24.2025

Kentucky Students Sue the State Over Inadequate Education

A group of students, including members of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, announced a groundbreaking lawsuit against the state of Kentucky, asserting that the state has not fulfilled its constitutional obligation to provide a quality system of public education for every Kentucky student.

1.15.2025

Buyer beware: KY’s Amendment #2 is not "choice" it may seem for students with disabilities

In this opinion piece, Dr. Sheila Schuster and Isabella Edghill write about how Amendment #2 would create funding shortfalls in public schools that would impact the ability of schools to meet the needs of all students.

9.24.2024

2024 General Assembly Bill Round Up

Two reporters for The New Edu outline education bills they followed throughout this legislative session, and highlight some of the most prominent changes being discussed in the education system right now.

5.10.2024

Kentucky students need encouragement to get to the polls. SB 80 creates barriers instead.

In this opinion piece, Isabella Edghill examines barriers created by SB 80, and why Kentucky students need more encouragement to get to the polls, not less.

2.12.2024

Letters from the Editors

The New Edu's leaders write about their opinions on Amendment 2.

The New Edu

10.30.2024