Kentucky News - December 20, 2012

State:

• Behavioral Health in Kentucky Schools (WBKO)
• MSU awarded TVA grant (Murray Ledger & Times)
• Ky. school safety program's budget slashed (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Beshear Signs Executive Order Creating Education Data Center (WFPL)
• Beshear Invites Kentuckians To Observe Moment Of Silence Friday For School Shooting Victims (Lex18)
• U of L, Simmons College team up to help needy students (Business First of Louisville)
• Transylvania University heads Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship (Business First of Louisville)
• WKU confers more than 1,300 degrees at fall commencement (WKU Herald)
• School Attendance Matters (Bowling Green Daily News)
• Simmons College, University of Louisville partner to pluck students from poor neighborhoods (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky's school-safety program slashed 60 percent in budget cuts (The Courier-Journal)
• Ivy Tech Community College seeks to expand in South Bend (The Courier-Journal)
• Transylvania University takes over Henry Clay Center for Statesmanshipe (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Early childhood education boosted (Cincinnati.com)
• OCTC plans Instant Admissions (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Fall Commencement recognizes nearly 650 degree candidates (Morehead State University News)
• Gov. Beshear establishes Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (Kentucky.gov)
• Chase Invests in Expanded STEM Programming Through United Way (Business Lexington)
• Are graduate degrees becoming the new bachelor’s degrees? (The Lane Report)
• Kentucky establishes Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (The Lane Report)

National:

• Presidential Pledge on Guns (Inside Higher Ed)
• At U. of Maryland, an Effort to Make Introductory Courses Extraordinary (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• College Enrollments Fell This Fall (Inside Higher Ed)
• Georgia college funding to focus on graduation, not enrollment (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• NEA, AFT Partner To Build Common-Core Tools (Education Week)
• Arts Education Seen as Common-Core Partner (Education Week)
• K-12, Higher Education Unite to Align Learning (Education Week)
• Common-Core Implementation Lags in California, Report Argues (Education Week)