In the legal battle over educational options for needy students, it’s déjà vu all over again. Kentucky’s Council for Better Education has filed a lawsuit challenging the commonwealth’s landmark Education Opportunity Accounts (EOAs) that will deliver school choice to thousands of Kentucky parents. Unfortunately for the council, the lawsuit reads as if legislators and courts…… more »
How kind is America? What are the kindest acts you can do for others? As part of its “A Call for Kindness” campaign, Verizon worked with Kindness.org, a non-profit whose mission is to educate and inspire people to choose kindness, to commission a first-of-its-kind academic research study to find out the state of kindness in…… more »
Members of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to launch an investigation into whether an international competition in Wuhan, China, involving thousands of athletes from around the world in October 2019 was the world’s first coronavirus “superspreader” event, according to a report on Wednesday. More than 9,000 athletes, including a delegation of 280…… more »
Cece Telfer, a transgender woman who won an NCAA Division II championship in 2019, was ruled ineligible Wednesday to compete in the U.S. Olympic trials. USA Track and Field (USATF) said in a statement Telfer failed to meet the World Athletic requirements to be eligible for trials. She had initially been on the list for…… more »
“Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent are worse off, on average, than children who grow up in a household with both of their biological parents, regardless of the parents’ race or educational background.” ~ Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps…… more »
The Teachers’ Retirement System of Kentucky on Monday approved a new set of assumptions about the future that will add $3 billion in unfunded liability to its books and require as much as $200 million more annually from the state budget. The TRS Board of Trustees approved recommendations from an experience study intended to set…… more »
A New Zealand weightlifter—who has competed in men’s events in the past– will become the first transgender competitor to qualify to be on the country’s women’s weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020. “I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders,” Laurel Hubbard, 43,…… more »
In another victory for religious groups at the Supreme Court, the justices on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples. The court said the city of Philadelphia wrongly limited its relationship with the group as a result of the agency’s policy.…… more »
A judge in Lexington will allow a group of gamblers to sue Keeneland and the Red Mile over losses on slots-like historical horseracing machines that Kentucky Supreme Court found were illegal. Fayette Circuit Court Judge Thomas Travis on Tuesday overruled a motion by the Lexington racetracks to dismiss the lawsuit, filed in February. Instead, Travis…… more »
Mitch McConnell said on Monday it’s “highly unlikely” he’d allow President Joe Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if he were Senate Majority Leader, once again stirring liberals’ fears about the composition of the country’s highest court and the importance of next year’s midterm elections. “I think in the middle of a…… more »
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