Lexington Herald-Leader

ENDANGERED A STUDENT ALLERGIC TO PEANUTS
By Steve Lannen
A Morton Middle School eighth-grader faces felony charges after putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunch box of another student with a severe allergy to peanuts.

House Democrats have no plans to hear bill
By Jack Brammer
After the Republican-led Senate approved a bill Friday along party lines that would replace the state's student testing system, a key House member said the measure likely will die in the Democratic-controlled House.

By BRETT BARROUQUERE
Critics of a bill pending before the General Assembly say it could cut off access to valuable information about possible cases of abuse in juvenile detention centers in Kentucky.

Saturday in the Junior Engineering Technical Society's TEAMS contest, sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Engineering.

UK CHEMIST NOT SWAYED BY REPORT
By Jim Warren
A University of Kentucky chemist still thinks that a mercury-containing preservative in children's vaccines is behind rising rates of autism in youngsters, despite a recent California report that seems to dismiss the theory.

By Linda B. Blackford
If both houses of the General Assembly pass Senate Bill 2, it will attempt to help thousands more Kentucky students take Advanced Placement classes, college-level courses and tests that can earn high school students college credit.

By Delano R. Massey
The sounds of worksheets rustling and pens and pencils rhythmically scratching across paper echoed throughout the large auditorium at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

For Kentucky's state universities and community colleges, the state's 3 percent budget cut is about as inviting as a walk down a dark alley.

By Raviya H. Ismail
Nearly 10 years ago, most of the Catholic schools in Lexington were at capacity. The solution? Build another school. Seton Catholic School opened its doors in August 2005.

A key lawmaker will champion proposed legislation that would criminalize sex between teachers and older teens who are not protected by Kentucky's age-of-consent law.

By Shawntaye Hopkins
The number of students who were suspended or expelled from Fayette County public schools increased last year, according to a state report released yesterday.

When prosecutors in three states won convictions against bogus medical practitioners who sought degrees from Kentucky-based Internet medical schools, there were no laws to target the diploma mills that handed out the fake credentials.

LEXINGTON, Ky. --Emily Rogers hasn't given much thought to what she's going to major in when she goes to college, but it's not quite time to be concerned.

Kentucky's public universities and community colleges would get about $2.5 billion in state general fund dollars for the 2008-2010 biennium, including a new incentive to increase the number of college graduates, under a recommended budget approved yesterday.

In Kentucky's gubernatorial campaign, the key education issue might well be, not something new, but something old that has a new sense of urgency.