Education

Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky will fund six new bornlearning Academies in western Kentucky schools and renew support for two others.

Calloway County's East Elementary and Paducah’s Farley Elementary first received their share of $1 million in grant funds in 2012.

Two colleges in southern Illinois have announced a cooperative agreement to provide training in the emerging field of high volume oil and gas drilling. Officials from Southeastern Illinois College in Harrisburg and Rend Lake College in Ina announced the plan Monday after Gov. Pat Quinn signed a new law establishing rules companies must follow during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Murray State University is preparing to demolish an historic building next month. The Board of Regents opted to tear down the 81-year-old Ordway Hall in 2011. 

A Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education study in 2007 found the structure lacked sufficient support and did not meet current code standards.

The board looked to donors to pay for the almost $10 milllion in needed renovations.

The Kentucky Board of Education has approved new science standards for grades K through 12.  They must now move through the regulatory process.  The Commonwealth is among a coalition of twenty-six states that developed the standards that identify science and engineering content that all students through 12th grade must master to be prepared for college.