A voice for Kentucky students
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An Intimate Conversation with Jefferson County's School Board Candidates
The New Edu
Data to Navigate Our Futures Poll
Reports
Through a collaborative partnership with the Data Quality Campaign, we found that high school students want access to data to navigate their own futures while superintendents want better access for district and school decisionmaking.
Kentucky Students Mark a Decade of Education Research, Policy, and Advocacy
Updates
For over 10 years, young people in Kentucky have passed legislation, restored funding and amplified stories that are building a more just and equitable publication education system in the Commonwealth.
Ten Minute Take: Your Grades Do(nt) Define You
Podcast
In the first 10 Minute Take from Get Schooled, Macalester College freshman Emma Nesmith gives her thoughts on grades and the culture around them.
The Three Pillars of KSVT
research
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.
policy
Advocacy
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.
KSVT In the news
voices from the front
The New Edu is Kentucky's only statewide, independent, student-run newsroom publishing insightful stories straight from Kentucky classrooms.
An Intimate Conversation with Jefferson County's School Board Candidates
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We Need Students To Tell The Stories of Our Schools
What is School For?
