Thanks to efforts from Kiwanis Club of Hardin County, elementary schools throughout the county now are stocked with plenty of socks, T-shirts and underwear for students.
Club members donated clothes Friday to all 13 elementary schools in the Hardin County Schools system, to Helmwood Heights Elementary School and Morningside Elementary School in the Elizabethtown Independent Schools system and to St. James Catholic School.
More than 5,000 clothing items were collected for area schools, according to club president Darrell Olson.
Each elementary school received a box of clothes which will be used by family resource officials, who will identify children in need of the clothes, he said.
After overriding Gov. Andy Beshearâs veto, state legislators approved House Bill 563, which is about 38 pages long and contains scholarship tax credit legislation. More specifically, it aims to set up education opportunity accounts, which allow families to pay for their choice of school.
Eligible families can apply to have education expenses covered at private and public schools.
They offer tax credits to those who donate to organizations that then distribute money to families to use for these expenses.
Education expenses covered include tuition, transportation fees, technology and books.
Those who qualify for an account are mostly students eligible for reduced-price lunch, with those then organized by need, with families who make the most in terms of income receiving smaller scholarships.
The Centers for Disease ConÂtrol and the Kentucky Department of Education have released new guidance on temperature checks at schools.
It says the CDC does not recommend schools continue to conduct COVID-19 symptom screening for students and staff on a daily basis. According to a news release, Hardin County Schools will follow this new recommendation when students return from spring break April 12.
Kelli Bush, Elizabethtown Independent Schools superintendent, also said in an email her district would be implementing the new guidance April 12.
Students and staff no longer will have to take their temperature when they arrive at school or their workplace.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Mar 17, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) Kids Read Now has partnered with school districts across Kentucky, including Carroll County Schools, Montgomery County Schools, Berea Independent, and Elizabethtown Independent Schools, to mail books directly to their students’ homes over the summer. The number of students in the Kids Read Now program continues to grow with almost 400,000 books being mailed to students in 2020 alone!
Most students will experience reading skill loss over a typical summer break from school. Creating home libraries is key to preventing a steep learning slide due to summer break and recent extended school closures. “Students who participate in the KRN in-home reading program see gains up to 2.5 months of learning over the summer instead of succumbing to the summer slide,” said Leib Lurie, CEO of Kids Read Now.