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Education

  • Claggett chosen as Teacher of the Year, 'face' of Daymar

    An Eastview woman recently has received significant recognition — both from her employer and from motorists in western Kentucky.

    Brandi Claggett, an instructor at Daymar College-Louisville South campus, has been named campus Teacher of the Year for the second year in a row. Claggett also is now featured in promotional material for the college, including billboards and the school’s website.

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  • No write-ins allowed for EIS seat

    The News-Enterprise

    The Kentucky Department of Education has corrected information given out about the possibility of a write-in candidate for the Elizabethtown Independent Schools board seat for which no one has filed. 

    In the case of a seat for which there are no candidates, no one is allowed to file as a write-in candidate, said Lisa Gross, the KDE director of the division of communications and community engagement. Gross had previously said this could be a possibility.

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  • EIS seat likely to be filled by appointment

    Elizabethtown Independent Schools will have two empty board seats in January, but just one person is running to fill them.

    Only one candidate, Matt Wyatt, is running for a seat on the board in the November elections, meaning the other spot likely will be filled by the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education.

    Current board members Dianne Cooper and Tony Kuklinski are not running to retain their seats on the board. Kuklinski intended to file for the election but missed the deadline.

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  • Eight HCS alumni honored

    While the Hardin County Schools district focuses daily on current students, administrators took Thursday afternoon to recognize past pupils.

    Eight graduates were recognized for their achievements at the Hardin County Schools’ Distinguished Alumni ceremony at the Historic State Theater. Military members were heavily represented. Other inductees included journalists and a physician.

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  • UK makes 'Kentucky Promise' to students

    The state’s major land-grant institution is making a promise to its students and to the state at large.

    University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto is touring the state as part of the university’s Preview Nights, in which high school students learn more about UK and what it offers. Capilouto is sharing The Kentucky Promise with students and other groups he’s visiting, which is a commitment the university is making to update physical and intellectual components of the school.

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  • HCS still completing new hires

    The county schools district has added most of the new faculty it needed after an early enrollment boom.

    Hardin County Schools has almost completed hiring nearly 20 new faculty members needed after the school year started with more students than expected.

    HCS needed to hire 17 more teachers, as well as some instructional aides, when enrollment a few days into the school year hit 14,126 students, beyond the projected 13,820 students.

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  • Enrollment up at EIS

    Enrollment at Elizabethtown Independent Schools is up this year, and is sitting at one of the largest totals the district has seen recently, said Nate Huggins, assistant superintendent for student and district support services.

    The mid-week total for the district, not including preschool students, is 2,413, which is the largest the district has seen in recent years, Huggins said.

    The increased numbers are at both ends of the age spectrum in the district. Elizabethtown High School saw an enrollment of 788 students in the middle of the week, he said.

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  • Local ACT scores mixed

    Most local schools exceeded state averages in the newly released results of ACT exams.

    The scores indicate improvements at Elizabethtown and North Hardin high schools, while John Hardin High School showed declining numbers in the subjects tested.

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  • Students learn texting and driving isn’t easy

    The crash had a distinct sound, like scraping metal, screeching tires and breaking glass. It repeated, over and over, as student after student settled into the driver’s seat only to climb back out minutes later after they had run off the road, hit a car or ran into a pedestrian crossing the street.

    Fortunately, this wasn’t driver’s ed.

    North Hardin High School hosted a texting and driving simulator from AT&T on Wednesday to highlight to some of its seniors how dangerous sending a message can be while maneuvering a car.

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  • Taxes increase for EIS

    The  Elizabethtown Independent Schools board voted  Monday night to raise its annual tax rate at its monthly meeting.

    The board voted unanimously to raise the rate on real and personal property to 67 cents per $100. Last year’s tax rate was 65 cents per $100 of property.

    The new rate gives the district a 4 percent increase in revenue from the previous year, and was the maximum rate the board could set for the year. The rate will give the district about $5.6 million in revenue, an increase of almost $167,500 from last year.

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