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Down the Drain: School Bathroom Privacy & Upkeep
The New Edu
Coping With Covid in Kentucky Part II: A Call to Action for Post-Online Learning
Reports
The second in our Coping With Covid series, this report includes quotes that underscore that while school districts were forced to quickly pivot to online learning for student safety, many could have better addressed both student and educator needs.
Kentucky Students Identify Opportunities for School Improvement in New Coping with Covid Statewide Report
Updates
Student researchers release results from continued study of how Kentucky youth experienced learning during the pandemic and continue to recover.
Ten Minute Take: A Smarter Generation Needs Better Equity In Education
Podcast
In this episode of 10 Minute Take from Get Schooled, Lafayette High School Junior Anopa Francis Musoni give his thoughts on educational equity and it's effects on education.
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Reporting
Democratizing Data
KSVT designs, conducts, and analyzes original research that centers student experiences. Through surveys, interviews, and roundtables with Kentucky youth, we uncover the impacts of today’s most pressing issues, including race and belonging, school safety, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the help of research experts, we analyze the data and disseminate reports to stakeholders and policymakers to influence discussions about the education system
journalism
Research
Writing the Good Fight
KSVT elevates independent and informed storytelling about education in Kentucky through our news publication The New Edu and our podcast Get Schooled. In centering student voices and perspectives and hewing to journalism's best and most ethical practices, our platforms offer essential insights on Kentucky schools from our system's primary stakeholders.
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Speaking Youth to Power
KSVT helps Kentucky's young people understand the legislative process and policy decisions made about their schools. Through rallies, testimony, op-eds, media events and more, we routinely advocate in Frankfort and in local communities for issues that directly affect all of Kentucky's students and advance more just and democratic schools.
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Down the Drain: Vaping, Vandalism, & Bathroom Safety
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Down the Drain: Real School Bathroom Accessibility
Young Kentuckians have essential role in realizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream
