The News Archive

Students walked out and protested against SB 150. Now, we’ve been failed by a system that is meant to protect us.

Following the Old National Bank shooting in Louisville, two students speak to being indirectly impacted by gun violence–and call for change.

On March 29th, Kentucky's Republican supermajority voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto—making SB 150, sweeping anti-trans legislation targeting trans youth, law.

Prejudice, exclusion, and hatred are subjects they know all too well.

Senate Bill 55 mandates that all public and charter schools with grades 4-12 have free period products available for students. 

Organized by ACLU Kentucky and the Real Young Prodigys, hundreds of students across Kentucky joined forces to advocate for the passage of Senate Bill 63, colloquially known as the CROWN Act.

Curriculum violence can be either intentional or unintentional, but it still negatively impacts students and causes lasting harm.

The three bills enable Kentucky students to hold their schools accountable, and are backed by bipartisan support.

Join Kentucky’s youth journalists in recognizing Student Press Freedom Day on February 23rd and supporting the New Voices Legislation.

Over 130,000 young Kentuckians deal with anxiety and depression. We need to center students’ mental health solutions in schools.

Immense pressure built into school isn’t consistent with supporting students’ mental health.

This is the third installment of Down the Drain on bathroom policy, from time to actually get to the bathroom to the lack of accessible, gender neutral bathrooms.

This is the second installment of Down the Drain on what happens in a school bathroom besides the obvious, from vaping to vandalism, and bathroom safety.

This is the first installment of Down the Drain on bathroom maintenance (and who pays for messiness) and school bathroom privacy.

Across Kentucky, young people are taking to heart MLK’s admonition from a Birmingham jail cell that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

How we teach environmental education in Kentucky is crucial not only for our planet, but for the future of our generation.

Our schools' primary stakeholders may be too young to vote for those who represent us on our district school boards, but we're note too young to have a voice in the process. Our Youth-Led Virtual Town Hall was centered around ways to make Kentucky schools more equitable. We pushed candidates to share their plans to make resources more accessible to underserved students as well as to better support our district’s educators.  

Today is Election Day and we, as 16 and 17-year-olds, do not have the right to vote for matters that impact us more than anyone.

Click into The New Edu inaugural Journalist Fellows sounding off on their hopes for The New Edu.

A rural Kentucky student examines how the critical race theory debate is playing out in our schools and communities.