Kentucky Supreme Court to decide fate of JCPS property tax increase Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT Apr 29, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Share Updated: 11:20 PM EDT Apr 29, 2021
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Show Transcript SUFFERED CUTS FROM FLYING DEBRIS. VICK THE KENTUCKY SUPREME COUR WILL DECIDE THE FATE OF THE JCPS PROPERTY TAX I. A JCPS PROPERTY TAX INCREASE. TODAY, THE COURT AGREED TO HEAR THE CHALLENGE FROM NO JCPS TAX HIKE. THE GROUP COLLECTED 40,000 SIGNATURES FOR A PETITION TO CHALLENGE A $0.07 TAX INCREASE ON LAST NOVEMBER’S BALLOT. DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, A JEFFERSON COURT JUDGE RULED THOUSANDS OF THOSE SIGNATURES WERE INVALID. THE QUESTION WAS ALREADY ON THE BALLOT. SO WHILE THE VOTES WERE
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Three years ago, teachers in Kentucky joined the burgeoning #RedforEd movement by staging a protest against a pension reform bill that legislators rammed through in less than 24 hours. They followed up with a sickout that shut down some two dozen school districts.
Those labor actions were not organized by the Kentucky Education Association, the state National Education Association affiliate that represents about 27,500 working K-12 public school employees. A Facebook group calling itself KY 120 United was responsible.
The state Supreme Court later struck down the bill, but KY 120 United continued its activism, organizing protests in 2019 and lobbying the legislature. It sometimes acted in concert with the state union, and other times alone. This unstable relationship came to an abrupt end last week, when the leaders of KY 120 United announced that the group would become an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.
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