Kentucky News - February 11, 2013

State:

• CPE re-elects Pam Miller as chair (The Morehead News)
• Education Center Now Open at State Capitol (WBKO)
• Gene Wilhoit to direct national education reform program at UK (The Lane Report)
• Turner brings can-do entrepreneurial spirit to new role as chair of EKU Board of Regents (The Lane Report)
• Debate on dropout age continues in session (The Paducah Sun)
• Paducah’s Harper says school gains require right teachers (The Paducah Sun)
• Area schools showing signs of improvement (Daily Independent)
• KSU pontoon boat finished (The State Journal)
• KSU fires its police chief (The State Journal)
• School district partners with UK to develop '21st century learning (The Richmond Register)
• Turner brings entrepreneurial spirit to regents' leadership (The Richmond Register)
• University-financed building projects bill clears House committee (Murray Ledger & Times)
• Lexington police plan to move training academy to new BCTC campus (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• EKU intends to lay off employees, outgoing president warns (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Bill would expand scholarship program to Kentucky's 34 coal counties (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• JCPS blasted in what education chief calls 'academic genocide' (The Courier-Journal)
• Board intends to hold closed committee meeting on contract (The News)
• UK to house a new national education center (The Kentucky Kernel)
• CU receives rankings for online programs (cknj)
• University of Louisville trustees vote on dean appointments (Business First of Louisville)

National:

• How Much Do You Pay for College? (The chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Best Value Colleges strive to cut tuition sticker shock (USA Today)