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Education

  • EHS starts class with focus on future

    High school students typically rush to a myriad of different classes throughout the day, but this year, the schedule for each student at Elizabethtown High School is identical at mid-morning.

    Elizabethtown High has created a new class this year for all students that allows time for them to receive extra help or educational enrichment. Called the College and Career Readiness class, its focus is to prepare students for life after high school.

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  • LaRue County marching band hoping to be 'Star' in contests

    The LaRue County Band of Hawks have learned about leadership along with learning notes.

    The LaRue County High School marching band enters the season with more difficult music and a new class in which to compete.

    The band has moved from Class 3-A to 2-A this year, which gives them a new set of bands to compete against, band director Jaime Smith said. That can be a challenge in itself, facing bands that aren’t familiar to you, Smith said.

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  • HCS plans vo-tech center

    Hardin County Schools wants to hand students more than a high school diploma upon graduation.

    HCS plans to open a vocational-technical center to help students earn career certificates or college hours before they graduate from high school.

    The timeline for opening such a facility depends on finding land to build a replacement for G.C. Burkhead Elementary School. The vo-tech center would be moved into the existing Burkhead building on Charlemagne Boulevard on Elizabethtown's west side.

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  • Photos: Reading is fun-damental
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  • NHHS senior's summer job search involved 'run for the border'

    Like many other high school students Zoie England found herself in need of a job for the summer.

    “I want to go out and do stuff with my friends,” England said.

    The North Hardin High School senior found herself making a run for the border to land a job at Taco Bell in Radcliff.

    “I really wasn’t expecting my first job to be in fast food,” England said.

    But the job was as good a place as any, she said.

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  • New EHS football stadium under consideration

    As the high school football season begins, preliminary steps are under way that could lead to a new stadium for the Elizabethtown Panthers.

    The Elizabethtown Independent Schools’ board will ask the Kentucky Department of Education to approve its desire to use a portion of its bonding authority for a football field on the high school campus. The request also includes improvements for the system’s indoor pool at T.K. Stone Middle School.

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  • Organization helps avoid bus mix-ups

    The beginning of the school year means new books and homework for students.

    It means a head scratcher for administrators and bus drivers in charge of carting more than 10,000 Hardin County Schools students and more than 1,000 Elizabethtown Independent School District students to and from school every day.

    School system employees have to find ways to make sure students, especially kindergartners, get where they’re supposed to safely weeks after determining how to divide routes.

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  • HCS to pass on free lunch program

    An opportunity from the federal government to offer free lunches to all students in schools in impoverished areas has been turned down so far by the majority of eligible school districts in Kentucky.

    Hardin County Schools is one of the eligible districts, but district officials found the program would end up costing the Child Nutrition Program money.

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  • John, E'town up in ACT scores

    ACT results for the local schools showed John Hardin High School and Elizabethtown High School improved in all four tested areas, while other schools were a mixed bag of increased and decreased scores.

    But most scores didn’t meet the benchmarks set by ACT Inc., which is consistent for the state’s results overall.

    The ACT is a multiple-choice test that measures college preparedness in four areas — English, math, reading and science. Students receive scores in the individual areas and a composite score for overall performance.

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  • Clark hired as Lakewood principal

    Lakewood Elementary School has one of its own taking the helm this school year.

    Shelee Clark has taken the job of principal after serving as assistant principal at the school for a little more than a year.

    Clark replaces Kerry Reeves, who retired in August. Clark has held a variety of positions in the Hardin County Schools district and taught at Lakewood for five years.

    Clark worked closely with Reeves during her time as assistant principal, she said. Reeves believed all administrators should know what principal duties entail, she said.

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