The two companion bills would make all Kentucky K12 schools 100 percent tobacco-free beginning July 1, 2020. The ban would include electronic cigarettes. Those concerned about such a policy worry about impeding the personal rights of adult school personal and visitors, and about statewide law overstepping local control.

The Cheddar post cable networks company and Discovery Education launched CheddarK-12, a collaboration delivering technology and business news to classrooms. Cheddar's current events content will be integrated into Discovery Education's Techbook Series, including a weekly compilation of briefings broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange floor.

Urban Alliance, a national youth workforce development organization, was awarded a three-year grant by News Corp to fund workforce readiness training and paid professional internships for economically-disadvantaged high school youth in southeast Washington, D.C.

The two words, “these kids,” frustrate Superintendent Carla Santorno more than any other phrase. It's used by some educators as a kind of secret code and a flimsy excuse for academic failure among marginalized students, she says.