The new edu
independent news & views about our schools from the kentucky student voice team

Down the Drain: School Bathroom Privacy & Upkeep
This is the first installment of Down the Drain on bathroom maintenance (and who pays for messiness) and school bathroom privacy.
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Down the Drain: School Bathroom Privacy & Upkeep
This is the first installment of Down the Drain on bathroom maintenance (and who pays for messiness) and school bathroom privacy.

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The New Edu is Kentucky's only statewide, independent, student-run education journalism service. Read more from our archives and from our prototype, The Student Voice Forum.
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The Changing Climate Around Environmental Education in Kentucky Classrooms
How we teach environmental education in Kentucky is crucial not only for our planet, but for the future of our generation.

Should Sixteen be the New Voting Age?
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.

An Intimate Conversation with Jefferson County's School Board Candidates
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.
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We Need Students To Tell The Stories of Our Schools
Students should have a say in their schools, which means they should have a say in how issues of education justice are shared, reported, and written about, too. That's why KSVT is launching The New Edu.

What is School For?
Members of the KSVT Press Corps reflect on the structural level of what school means. Read a lightly edited roundtable transcript from September 26, 2022.

A setback to education: How Attacks on Critical Race Theory Harm Education in Ohio County
A rural Kentucky student examines how the critical race theory debate is playing out in our schools and communities.

Sound Off: Our Hopes For The New Edu
Click into The New Edu inaugural Journalist Fellows sounding off on their hopes for The New Edu.

Don't call it an achievement gap
Kentucky has been called out by the federal government for our widening racial gaps in student performance.

My Life as a Gender Non-Conforming Student
I don’t know what it’s like to be comfortable. I have never felt comfortable, never felt like I belonged. Never felt like I had a home. And that’s a really hard feeling to have. To acknowledge.