Kentucky News - January 15, 2013

State:

• Kentucky schools face $60 million bill from failed insurance trust (Business First of Louisville)
• Schools facing insurance costs as trust disbands (Daily Independent)
• Ky. school districts get added burden (The Richmond Register)
• KWC's STEM scholarship deadline nears (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Law allows principals to skip being teachers (Cincinnati.com)
• Grant will put LEGO robots in all Fayette County elementary schools (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Madison County second-graders sit on big rubber balls instead of plastic chairs (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky schools face bill of as much as $60 million after insurance trust dissolves (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky schools facing insurance costs as trust disbands (The Courier-Journal)
• Students will have say in new provest (The kentucky Kernel)
• WKU to Build New Honors College and International Center (WBKO)

National:

• A Free Semester (Inside Higher Ed)
• iPad U. (Inside Higher Ed)
• Researchers, MOOCs, and Online Programs (Inside Higher Ed)
• Connecticut's Reorganization (Inside Higher Ed)
• Declines in Tuition Revenue Leave Many Colleges Financially Squeezed (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Chinese Summer Schools Sell Quick Credits (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Court: State must increase education funding (CJOnline)
• 3 WKU professors win nature award (San Francisco Chronicle)