>> Protesters rally after former LMPD officer involved in the Breonna Taylor case.

It's a new job in law enforcement.

Anytime you don't invest in public school education, you're not investing in the community.

We're hearing from a couple of school districts that will receive additional state funding.

Thanks to House Bill 5.53.

We really wanted to connects these young women with an opportunity to teach other young women about the ways to KET the kids safe.

Young moms are teaching other young moms how to protect their children from sexual abuse.

>> We've had here's where we've had 8 workplaces and then 10 12.

And this year we're looking at 16 workplaces.

So it's grown a little bit every year.

>> And how some Franklin County workplaces are getting fresh food straight from the fall.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.

Leonard Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition for Monday.

April 24th, thank you for joining us.

I'm Casey Parker Bell filling in for Renee Shaw.

A protest this morning over the newest member of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office over the weekend at the Carroll County Sheriff's Office confirmed it hired Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville metro police officer who investigators say fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor Cosgrove was fired from the LMPD after an investigation into the deadly shooting.

The department said Cosgrove violated use of force procedures and did not use a body camera during the botched drug raid on Taylor's apartment in 2020 Cosgrove was reportedly hired by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office last week.

Almost a dozen people showed up outside the sheriff's office in Carrollton to protest the higher they say the community was shocked to learn that Cosgrove had a new job with the department.

>> We cannot have that in Carroll County Kilkenny is 10,000.

People is so small and so special having you here is only going to hurt the community in heard other people who shouldn't be here.

I don't believe >> Miles, Costco said contained carry a gun or wear Baghdad.

Don't believe that qualified immunity said this in a really problematic officers should not not continue the officers.

>> Robert Miller, the chief deputy in Carroll County, defended the higher to the Associated Press.

Saint Cosgrove was cleared by the FBI and the state grand jury of any charges in the case in November.

The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council voted not to revoke Cosgrove State peace officer certification, allowing him to apply for other jobs and law enforcement across the state.

Former state Representative Huber Collins passed away on Friday.

Collins was from Johnson County Representative District 97 as a Democrat for 26 years.

There's also a teacher and attended Morehead State University in a tweet, the Kentucky House Democrats said Collins quote, Built a reputation as an outstanding legislator as someone who had no shortage of colorful sports coats, funeral arrangements are pending.

Huber Collins was 86 years old.

The Supreme Court has sided with the request by the U.S. Justice Department to leave in place.

The FDA's approval of the medication, abortion, drug, mifepristone.

Late Friday, the justices blocked rulings that could have sharply restricted use of the drug or taking it off the market entirely.

The case now returns to the 5th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals.

That will hear arguments on the Food and Drug Administration's authorization of Mifepristone next month.

In Education news school districts with growing enrollment numbers are ending the year with a big win on the last day of session, lawmakers voted to adjust, seek funding, meaning more dollars for districts that are growing.

It's a follow-up to a pandemic era decision to help schools with lower attendance.

Laura Rogers has more on House Bill 5.53.

And really has been has been a relief superintendent Gary Fields as Bowling Green Independent School District will receive an extra $500,000.

>> Thanks to House Bill 5.53.

This was kind of a complicated issue.

It goes back to the pandemic with COVID schools are funded based on the seek formula which stands for support, education excellence in Kentucky.

It's based on average daily attendance which suffered during the pandemic.

>> Parents decided to homeschool their kids.

Kids just stop showing up.

We have a hard time tracking them down.

>> So they were going to lose money that already budgeted all this money for teacher staffing.

All this to make up for that.

The state legislature funded schools based on PRE-PANDEMIC numbers.

The 2018, 19 school year.

Well, most districts that was good.

They were going to make more money that way.

But with these 26 districts including Bowling Green, Warren County, their attendance had grown.

So they were going to lose money.

So that's what the fight was about.

Representative Kevin Jackson, a former educator coach and school board member serves on the Education committee.

I started talking to Chairman Pay tree with a in our committee.

I said how much money are we talking about?

We came up with a figure of about 10 and a half million dollars to make those 26 school districts hole.

In the meantime, administrators say serving an influx of students with no additional money has been difficult.

>> Well, for this year, you know, with our increased enrollment, you know, we've had a harm or teachers, more staff.

>> One of our largest financial challenges has been the ability to provide the competitive compensation for our staff.

>> Payton says the additional revenue, 3 million dollars storing county public schools will help provide higher wages.

>> We'll make your car go that far of this.

>> Beal says receiving these ponds freeze up his district's ability to plan for next year in many of our schools are getting more or instructional assistants or more which we can now do with confidence because we have that much.

>> When it comes to looking ahead, both expressed concerns about school funding in the future.

I think is a hole in the city, Kentucky.

The big dilemma is there are many school districts that are shrinking.

And so how are those school districts going to >> be able to continue to function to manage.

It's critical that our lawmakers >> position our school districts where we can adequately find not only the resources but the staffing needs are going to remain a challenge moving forward.

>> This especially as enrollment numbers in Bowling Green and Warren County are expected to stay on the rise.

>> Without a doubt, we're going to continue to experience significant growth.

That's a slowdown in my 10 years and all the project, a significant increase.

You know, the things in our communities.

We have a large refugee to be a refugee.

>> And moment grows dramatically each year.

>> 37 years in education.

I can't turn my back on the What's helped me through the years and I know how important public education is to our kids in our community.

>> For Kentucky Edition on Laura Rogers.

>> This is a one-time adjustment.

Jackson says next year school districts will be funded based on their 2022.

23 attendance numbers.

Now more education news calling it a game changer for students and parents, Fayette County Public Schools has announced it is expanding dual credit opportunities for high school students.

The district has partnered with Blue Grass community and Technical College and eastern Kentucky University on the program.

It will let any high school student in the district.

Take a dual credit course for free or at a reduced cost.

Additionally juniors and seniors can take other courses in the UK.

You at a reduced cost.

Fayette County Public School Superintendent Dimitris Liggins says covering the cost, of course, will eliminate barriers that may prevent students from taking advantage of dual credit and certificate programs.

>> So imagine what that will do for many of our students who will be able to earn a college degree who've never experienced a family member going to college even thought that possibly they could go to college.

But yet they have the opportunity to finish it while still in high school in Fayette County, Public Schools.

>> Ligon says Fayette County Public Schools is working with other four-year universities to offer Democrats.

More than 100 counties saw unemployment rates drop last year.

According to new numbers released by the state annual county unemployment data shows unemployment decreased in 102 counties in 2022.

Scott and Woodford counties reporting the lowest rate at 3%.

Each at the other end, 12 county saw unemployment rates increase with Madoff and county recording the state's highest at 10.5%.

The report says unemployment rates stay the same in 6 counties last year.

Republican candidate for Governor Alan Keck is that with his first TV ad, it starts off with a mention of 2 of his opponents.

>> But desperate family, friends and foes with annual retired the same old politics.

>> Goes on to say that his time as a CEO and mayor of Somerset shows that he knows how to, quote, get things done.

He also outlines what his game plan would be as governor recent polling suggests Keck is a long shot win the primary, which is now just over 3 weeks away.

Hear from some of the candidates running for state treasurer and for commissioner of Agriculture on Kentucky tonight and send us your questions and comments.

That's tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central here on KET and next week May 1st you'll see 5 Republican candidates for Governor.

>> Lexington, based nonprofit step by step works to empower young single mothers who are healing, faith and education.

Last week, the group partnered with Prevent Child Abuse, Kentucky to show single moms how they can protect their kids from sexual abuse using other single moms as teachers.

>> We've been surveying young single moms ages 12 to 24 for almost 30 years.

This is for any young single mom, pregnant or parenting who just wants to come in have community.

We have free transportation.

We have a children's programming.

We have a hot meal some nights.

It's craft night some nights.

It's talking about hard things like tonight.

Tonight was all about child sexual abuse and how to KET your child safe.

What we learn from our mom says that about 89% of them have experienced some sort of sexual violence in their life.

When you are already someone who might have experienced some hardships and some adverse childhood experiences, you might not have the knowledge how to protect your child.

I was on a call and listening to prevent child abuse.

Kentucky give one of the best ratings ever heard.

And I contacted immediately and said, can you come into something with our moms?

We were actually doing a training for foster parents talking about preventing child sexual abuse.

>> And Tanya with step-by-step held on till after the training and said I have this program and I know there are these mothers that need this education.

But here is the I D I have.

What if it's not you are providing the education.

But Piers, so moms teaching other moms how to KET their kids safe.

We really wanted to >> connects these young women with an opportunity to teach other young women about the waste, KET the kids safe.

So they went through intensive training and helped write the curriculum and then they gave the curriculum.

Tonight.

I have experienced sexual bees myself.

My daughter has experience some things.

And I just want to be able to walk through this.

So with the experiences I'm this opening to be able to learn new things in >> know that it is able to share it with other single mothers.

>> The child sexual abuse tends to be a subject that people want to sweep under the rug.

They might be uncomfortable.

They might not know where to start when talking about it.

So we like to give them those talking points.

Parents need to have talks with their kids about body safety and about safe trusted adult to they could go to should anything ever happened to them if they don't want to be around somebody don't take that.

They say no trust your child to not take on whether the daycare school anywhere they your child tells you they're not going to let them do take it.

If they you know, behaving differently, acting you know, having problems in school.

My daughter, I notice I'm actually the sun the times that they taught us.

And, you know, >> it's been a lot of time on the phone, be in sync it with the phone, trying to go up in a room and play on the phone.

And so I looked on her a box and there was somebody in box and heard some very inappropriate things just being aware of who they're around, what they're going when they're doing good.

Just being aware of what they're going to call time first, it was very Could brought up a lot of stuff to happen to me.

But then afterwards, I learned a lot how to teach my children.

And I KET that was very overwhelming for me.

It be for other mom.

I wanted to share it so they can learn and know the steps and how to watch it there and not the society thinks they are.

>> And when they walk through these doors, make it to shed all of that and just women.

We want to make a change in the community.

I was humbled and honored to be a part of this.

I went into it thinking of what a great project it is, but not realizing.

>> how much I would be personally touched.

>> By the moms who are now my sisters.

>> They became my family.

Well, that didn't have any family >> I'm really thankful just coming here has definitely just changed me as a woman and help me grow tremendously.

And I just cannot be more thankful for all the wonderful women.

And just everyone I've met through step by step and just all the support and love that they give us that he's definitely actually change my life much of his life.

And then they're showing us live to come.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Kentucky State University has bought a new farm, the 100 acre property will be used to study environmentally sustainable crop development University wants to research how to make small farms more profitable and to provide a space to teach the community how to do so.

We spoke to case use president and the Dean of agriculture school to find out how they plan to use the new farm to plant seeds for future growth.

>> quite that property for the purpose not just to do the research.

But for the purpose of figuring out how we could actually help small family farms.

>> We've seen a a great increase in folks being interested in buying food locally locally grown of of food we want to help support farmers want to to grow those different crops locally.

And so our goal is to provide them with the information that's going to have them be economically viable was a tobacco farm.

A one point and a cattle were also produced on this farm.

And as woodland areas that has some creeks in Springfield, creeks.

It's very reflective of a lot of the small farms.

We have a Kentucky.

I think that's way it's the model, right for us to go out and and have trials with various crops.

Farmers are very interested in sustainable production methods for number of reasons.

One is the cost of energy.

And we've all seen kind of the ups and downs of prices.

But for all, you know, for the future, we see energy becoming more expensive.

And so we can use less fertilizer if we can use other nitrogen fixation methods to to basically supply crops of different rotations.

We can cut the cost of to farmers doing that.

We focus on small family.

>> Farmers, small family farms and look at how they can actually be successful at their scale.

And so 100 plus acre Paul property.

Gives us the opportunity to do something that's similar to what there are of these families are doing.

>> In terms of this farm, it's going to be a great place for folks to come and see how these different types of techniques are actually implemented and actually develop recommendations are really going to help or small farm survive and And in the future.

Research at the farm will include a focus on row crop production and control of invasive plants.

The 100 acre farm is just outside of Frankfort and was purchased through USDA research grant funding.

Franklin County residents are getting farm fresh produce without taking a trip to the farmers market.

Farm to Frankfort is a workplace delivery program that brings the market right to the office.

♪ >> We KET that there are these giant office buildings in Frankfort, of many people that work for the state and they commute in from all over the state.

So they are people that come in from Lawrenceburg, Lexington, Louisville, and they probably would never become Saturday market customers because they're back in their own communities on the weekends.

But we want to capitalize on all these people that come into Frankfort and let them experience some of our wonderful local businesses and agricultural products.

People can jump online.

They can put items in their carts.

There are all kinds of things.

There might be beer cheese, hot sauce, tomatoes on Thursday morning is all the farmers get here by about 08:00AM everything label.

They haven't backed up.

We have a team of about 46, local volunteers that help that are mostly retired people that com packing bagging.

And then we also have our farmers and our vendors volunteer.

We do curbside pickup on Thursday morning from 9.30, to 10:00AM.

And you can just pull up and we put your items in your trunk and you can access all the same products.

We also do ordering for all of our Saturday market.

Will you just walk up and say hi, I'm more Fincher.

I'm here for my bread and they would have it set aside.

A lot of our vendors love that because it ensures that their favorite products don't sell out.

So your market is from 8.30, to noon on Saturdays.

If you want to show up at 11:30AM, your all your stuff and still be waiting for you and your favorite cookies would be on some of our biggest champions are human resources department and also our health and wellness departments.

And so people really view this as an employee wellness, perk it, you know, some workplaces have had a hard time getting people to want to come back to the office after COVID.

But if they know every Thursday there and get this great order, they want to come into the office.

We do offer some scoops the prepared foods.

So it's an incentive to let them say, hey, get your lunch delivered from the farmers market.

So a lot of our people really rally around this.

It's become really popular at some of the And so hopefully this will be something that they could offer us a perk for their employees.

>> Anyone can order online for curbside pickup, but qualify for workplace delivery need at least 10 participants and will in cup coordinator from the Frankfort is still accepting new workplace hubs.

First delivery route this season, which runs from now through November.

♪ Derby week attracts more than 1.5 million visitors to Louisville each year.

Among the festivals and fun.

A lot of businesses and work opportunities.

And that's what Derby diversity week is all about.

Kelsey Starks sat down with the project's founder for an inside look.

>> Derby Diversity Week is the flagship fund raiser for the global Economic Diversity Development Initiative also known as Jet that it is and nonprofit organization all about reducing the wealth gap in the black community and to want to ban is the founder of this event now in its 6 years.

So let's go back to could the creation of this event.

Why did you see the need here?

>> You I've had the beauty and the luxury of traveling the world and attending a lot of amazing things that were designed for the black community.

And we had a void here during Derby to really pull together other visionaries leaders.

And after 7 years of pondering, I decided to actually execute.

And so here we are.

>> And you know, the black community, it's been a huge catch.

The list in horse racing in general.

And now and, you know, you're just trying to bring that back to the forefront, right?

Yeah.

Well, you know, and the thing is a lot of people don't know that they do not realize that almost all of the jockeys in the very first Kentucky Derby race for black men and then.

>> 15 out of the first 28 races were won by Black jockeys.

And as we share that story and others learn that educate themselves that once upon a time we were very involved and it was a lucrative income stream for many black families.

And then Jim Crow happen, right?

So there's also a call calling, you know, the purpose here to reconnect our community to something that they help make popular.

And that's extremely exciting re.

It's really you know, the vision is bold, but we are really changing the status status quo.

But let's talk about the vision what people can expect.

>> Business by day festival.

But tonight I love Yeah, absolutely.

So we have bought leaders from all over and we're excited to have some was shot in Troy with her nearly here coming into town.

They take in the industry by a storm.

They'll be sharing best practices around financial investment in real estate.

We're super excited.

Also have aproach Ella only notice at hotel and now after a teacher from out of Ghana and their co-founder is here with us to just discuss business and how they've grown to 30,000.

Plus, you know, festival there's going to be so many people from 5th 3rd bank talking about this current status of D E an eye all the way a woman with count that that really shook things up for black in that do Shabbir really excited to have her as well.

This going to be so much opportunity during the day to learn, to grow, develop and to connect.

But then we'll let her hair down at night.

And we will have a good time with our fest passes from fashion show Block Party Derby.

Sneaker ball.

Anything you can think of.

We tried to to make sure we have a good time.

It is really jam packed with a lot of different from all ranges and >> and some free some paid events.

And so a little something for everybody.

But you say this is a make or break year for you.

Why sad it because the call has been put out.

And so we have people again find all the way in from Africa.

>> To say, since we stand with you actually be kicking off the week with a fireside chat with these 2 founders after a future.

I mean, they are taking the world that country literally by a storm and just really talking about their goal of reconnecting the diaspora.

And so we've got so many eyes and so many people that are like we're here for it.

We're coming and we've laid the blueprint.

We've laid the foundation.

And so now I say to make a break here because there are going to come back or not.

>> Yeah, I had a feeling they'll be coming back.

What?

Thank you so much.

We appreciate you being here so much.

And again, Derby diversity.

We call kicks off Monday May 1st and it goes.

>> Through May the 7th.

>> Many of derby diversity week's events are free and open to the public.

But some have to be registered for in advance.

You can find out more online derby.

Diversity dot com.

It's a high honor for Kentucky chef chef Edward Lee who is from Louisville will be cooking the meal for the next White House state dinner.

President Joe Biden is hosting South Korea's president on Wednesday for state visit Liza Korean American chef and restaurant owner who has appeared on the cooking show top chef.

He tells the AP competing on top chef wasn't his nerve.

Wracking is spending 2 days at the White House with first Lady Jill Biden tasting and approving his recipes late this afternoon.

The White House gave a sneak peek at the menu.

The first course includes Maryland crab cake and yellow squash soup.

The main course braised beef short ribs and butter being grits and for dessert.

A banana split and Limon bar ice cream sounds pretty good.

We have sports a president, a vice president and the famous bird expert in tonight's look back at this week in Kentucky, history.

Here's to be gives with that and more.

♪ >> We'll crack and county native album Barclay served in the U.S. House in the U.S. Senate.

And as vice president under Harry S Truman, they return to the Senate after the vice presidency and died while giving a speech in Virginia on April.

30th 1956.

President Lyndon Johnson paid a surprise visit to Tommy Fletcher's home in Martin County on April.

24th 1964.

As part of his war on poverty Tour.

>> Happy birthday to legendary Kentucky, football and basketball broadcaster Caywood Ledford born in Harlan County on April 24th 1926.

And that's not this week's only birthday, famed naturalist artist and bird expert John James Audubon was born April.

26 17.

85.

He was born in Haiti but eventually moved to Henderson.

Kentucky set up a dry goods store and continued his hobby of drawing burns.

The Kentucky colonels of the American Basketball Association played their last game ever on April.

28 1976, losing to the Denver Nuggets in the ABA playoffs.

The NBA and ABA would merge later that year.

But the colonels were not among the teams.

Asked to join.

Scandal rocked the Kentucky sports world on April 24th 1991 when trainers for general Ret were accused of giving him steroids to improve his performance during Spalding universities.

19th annual rent or meet.

And that's a look at this week in Kentucky history.

It begins.

>> So it's fun to take a look back.

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