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'Race for the Top' in Kentucky: improving education in the region (part three)
We've been reporting on what new Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry ...
We've been reporting on what new Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday and other leaders see as the next "tidal wave" of Kentucky Education Reform. Holliday has opined that Kentucky's enactment of Senate Bill 1
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Kentucky financial situation 'worst in 30 years'
Kentucky lawmakers continue preparations for the 2010 legislative session, which ...
Kentucky lawmakers continue preparations for the 2010 legislative session, which begins in less than three weeks. During a budget briefing in Frankfort not too many people were smiling.
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Group Give Pictures, Doesn't Take Them
You've heard the cliche: "a picture is worth a thousand ...
You've heard the cliche: "a picture is worth a thousand words." Well, in Murray, Kentucky recently, a group of photographers gathered for one day to shoot portraits in hopes that their photos would give people something to talk
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Pirate Radio at Maiden Alley Cinema
Just about everybody enjoys a good story about a rag-tag ...
Just about everybody enjoys a good story about a rag-tag bunch of underdogs fighting oppression. "Pirate Radio," from writer and director Richard Curtis, tells the somewhat true story of a group of DJ's, headed by Phillip
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(Part Two) Kentucky's "Race to the Top," meeting new education standards
This Monday, Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday told Kentucky ...
This Monday, Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday told Kentucky School Superintendents their school systems' commitments to the state's Race to the Top strategies are key to the Phase I grant proposal due January 19. Kentucky
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MSU Scrambles to Hire Next Head Coach
Murray State University is without a head coach for its ...
Murray State University is without a head coach for its Racer football program. Athletic Director Allen Ward has been narrowing down a list of over a hundred applicants with blinding haste, in order to hire a replacement before the school closes for
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Sunday, Memorial Celebration for Glema Mahr
Madisonville lost a darling last month at the passing of ...
Madisonville lost a darling last month at the passing of Glema Mahr. But her memory will live on in the contributions she made during her lifetime, and the legacy she left Hopkins County in her death. Glema didn't want a weepy memorial service.
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MSU grad receives design award from National Kitchen & Bath Association
Jordan James is a Murray State graduate of the Interior ...
Jordan James is a Murray State graduate of the Interior Design Program. While he was a student, James was the president of the college's National Kitchen & Bath Association's and American Society of Interior Designers student
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Kentucky basin team curbs farmers from polluting Mississippi River
A nearly 6-thousand square mile "Dead Zone" meets fisherman near ...
A nearly 6-thousand square mile "Dead Zone" meets fisherman near the Mississippi river Delta at the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico. The dead zone is caused by nutrient enrichment from the Mississippi River, particularly nitrogen
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Colleges Brace for More Remedial Classes
In less than a year, the student population at colleges ...
In less than a year, the student population at colleges and universities in Kentucky will change. In the fall 2010 semester, new statewide ACT standards will raise the scores needed in Math and Reading for incoming freshmen. For community colleges and
