Last week, numerous parents wondered what they were going to do about getting their kids to and from school after hearing the Kentucky Department of Education would no longer be
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) â Some parents are calling for the Kentucky Department of Education Commissioner to resign after comments he made in a meeting Tuesday about messages the department receives from people on masking and other COVID protocols.
In the Local Superintendents Advisory Council meeting, KDE Commissioner Jason Glass spoke about the many messages he knows superintendents receive on masking. I certainly get those too and we ve developed a process for handling them at KDE, he said. It s become kind of a daily thing and so we have kind of an assembly line format that handles so it s a mild nuisance but we get them on a regular basis.
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Show Transcript ANDCH SOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS, KENTUCKY PREPARE TO RETURN TO IN-PERSON CLASSES THE DELTA VARIANT IS THREATENING TO PREVENT A FULL RETURN TO NORMAL THAT MANYAD H HOPED FOR THE DEADLY MIXTURE OF THE VARIANT. PLUS THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN VACCINATED IS LEADING TO A SIGNIFICANT SURGE IN CASES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF JULY THE POSITIVITY RATE AND NUMBER OF NEWAS CES HAS QUINTUPLED THE NUMBER OF COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATIONS ICU ADMISSIONS AND PEOPLE ON A VENTILATOR HAS TRIPLED KENTUCKY HEALTH COMMISSIONER, DR. STEVEN STACK SAYS THE DELTA VARNTIA HAS A VIRAL LDOA 1000 TIMES GREATER THAN PREVIOUS VARIASNT MAKING IT THE MOST TRANSMISSIB YETLE TWO AND A HALF MORE TIMES OR SO TRANSMISSIBLE. QUEEN PEOPLE AND ONE AND A HALF TIMES OR SO
St. Louis mayoral candidate Tishaura Jones dances with supporters outside Lexington Elementary School on Tuesday.
Less than 48 hours after her victory in Tuesday’s race and 12 days before she’ll be sworn into office, St. Louis Mayor-elect Tishaura Jones said Thursday that she’s ready to move fast on a number of fronts including the critical issues currently facing the City Justice Center.
In conversation with
St. Louis on the Air’s Sarah Fenske, Jones suggested that Corrections Commissioner Dale Glass, who’s been criticized in the wake of the latest uprising at the center Sunday night, needs to go.