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- Clinton County Schools Will Go Tobacco-free In July 2016, Do Media Campaign To Prepare People For The Change
The Clinton County Board of Education has voted to make all of the county's school campuses tobacco free, but decided to not implement this program until the 2016 school year begins to give the public more time to adjust to the new rule, reports the...
- Another Kentucky School District Goes Tobacco-free And E-cigarette Free; Efforts Largely Led By Students In Webster County
The Webster County school board voted unanimously May 26 to make all district property, vehicles and buildings officially tobacco-free, Matt Hughes reports for the Webster County Journal-Enterprise. As in some other school districts, efforts for the ban...
- Burgin, In Heart Of Kentucky, Is State's 40th School District To Go Tobacco-free; Ban, Won By Students, Applies To Vapor Products
Burgin Independent Schools, in the heart of Kentucky, will be the latest 100 percent tobacco-free schools in the state, and the first in Mercer County, which has a strong tobacco heritage. The Burgin Board of Education voted April 8 to ban all tobacco...
- Warren County School Board Bans Tobacco Use On Campuses And By Students And Employees During Extracurricular School Activities
The Warren County Board of Education voted 4-1 on March 16 to ban the use of tobacco "by students, employees or those on school grounds or during extracurricular school activities" as of July 1, Charles Mason reports for the Bowling Green Daily News....
- 'hard Times' Help 13 More Schools In Paducah Area Join About 20 In Federal Program That Gives Free Meals To All Students
Thirteen more schools in the Paducah area will offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students under a provision of the federal school-lunch program, joining about 20 others in the region, reports Genevieve Postelthwait of The Paducah Sun. "Schools...
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Montgomery County board OKs free meals at most schools
In a microcosm of discussions taking place all over Kentucky and much of America, a divided Montgomery County Board of Education decided Aug. 19 to offer free meals to all children in the county's elementary schools and its Early Learning Center.
By another 3-2 vote, the board defeated a motion to offer free meals at those schools and the county's intermediate school, one of the two options recommended by the district's food-services director.
It did not vote on a much more expensive option of offering free meals at all the county's schools, including Montgomery County High School, or on the other recommended option, to offer the meals at only one elementary and the Early Learning Center. Board Member Sharon Smith-Breiner, who supported the program generally, said she couldn't support singling out one elementary, Tom Marshall reports for the Mount Sterling Advocate.
Board Member Kenny Gulley, who opposed all the options, "told fellow board members that he couldn?t support the decision because it provides free meals to students whose parents have been deemed capable of paying and there is no evidence that they are not being fed," Marshall reports.
By another 3-2 vote, the board defeated a motion to offer free meals at those schools and the county's intermediate school, one of the two options recommended by the district's food-services director.
It did not vote on a much more expensive option of offering free meals at all the county's schools, including Montgomery County High School, or on the other recommended option, to offer the meals at only one elementary and the Early Learning Center. Board Member Sharon Smith-Breiner, who supported the program generally, said she couldn't support singling out one elementary, Tom Marshall reports for the Mount Sterling Advocate.
Board Member Kenny Gulley, who opposed all the options, "told fellow board members that he couldn?t support the decision because it provides free meals to students whose parents have been deemed capable of paying and there is no evidence that they are not being fed," Marshall reports.
Board Member Alice Anderson, who voted yes on both motions, "responded that at least this way the board can ensure that they are fed," Marshall writes. "Smith-Breiner cited as one of the advantages of the move being the potential to boost the school attendance rate and test-score improvement."
Under guidelines of the federal National School Lunch Program, the district must commit for a period for four years with the ability to opt out," Marshall notes. "Food services director Julie Tuttle . . . said the board can reevaluate the success of the program next April."
- Clinton County Schools Will Go Tobacco-free In July 2016, Do Media Campaign To Prepare People For The Change
The Clinton County Board of Education has voted to make all of the county's school campuses tobacco free, but decided to not implement this program until the 2016 school year begins to give the public more time to adjust to the new rule, reports the...
- Another Kentucky School District Goes Tobacco-free And E-cigarette Free; Efforts Largely Led By Students In Webster County
The Webster County school board voted unanimously May 26 to make all district property, vehicles and buildings officially tobacco-free, Matt Hughes reports for the Webster County Journal-Enterprise. As in some other school districts, efforts for the ban...
- Burgin, In Heart Of Kentucky, Is State's 40th School District To Go Tobacco-free; Ban, Won By Students, Applies To Vapor Products
Burgin Independent Schools, in the heart of Kentucky, will be the latest 100 percent tobacco-free schools in the state, and the first in Mercer County, which has a strong tobacco heritage. The Burgin Board of Education voted April 8 to ban all tobacco...
- Warren County School Board Bans Tobacco Use On Campuses And By Students And Employees During Extracurricular School Activities
The Warren County Board of Education voted 4-1 on March 16 to ban the use of tobacco "by students, employees or those on school grounds or during extracurricular school activities" as of July 1, Charles Mason reports for the Bowling Green Daily News....
- 'hard Times' Help 13 More Schools In Paducah Area Join About 20 In Federal Program That Gives Free Meals To All Students
Thirteen more schools in the Paducah area will offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students under a provision of the federal school-lunch program, joining about 20 others in the region, reports Genevieve Postelthwait of The Paducah Sun. "Schools...