Critics of a school choice amendment are organizing to oppose its passage.

And Kentucky is home to some sharp dressed police.

Our Toby Gibbs tells us more in this look at headlines around Kentucky.

Public education advocates have formed a coalition to oppose an amendment that would allow public school funds to be used for private schools.

The group Protect Our schools.

Kentucky is working to defeat the measure.

It would allow the state to fund education savings accounts for families to pay their children's tuition at private or charter schools.

The Republican led Kentucky General Assembly approved placing the amendment on the November ballot during the last legislative session, according to the Richmond Register.

The group says if the measure passes, private schools might not be held to the same educational standards.

And if it's approved, the state will end up providing what amounts to a blank checks to private schools using money that should go to public education.

Supporters of the plan say it provides more choices for families in educating their children.

Kentuckians are more likely to pay out of pocket for their mental and behavioral health services than for other medical care.

The Kentucky landlord says a report by the American Psychological Association showed that as COVID 19 peaked in the Commonwealth, the number of Kentuckians forced to go out of their insurance network for acute inpatient care also increased.

The report shows that Americans were ten times more likely to go out of their insurance network for psychological care than they were for medical care.

Kentuckians were 17 times more likely to get out-of-network care for behavioral health than they were for medical or surgical care.

Eric Russell, the executive director of the Kentucky Psychological Association, tells the Kentucky Lanter The fact that so many patients are forced to go out of network to receive mental health and substance use care is unacceptable.

He says no one is doing well and, quote, We have room to go before we have something that looks like real parity between our mental health and medical systems.

Going from black to blue has earned the London Police Department a national honor.

The Sentinel Echo newspaper says the department was chosen for the best dressed public safety award by the Network Association of Uniform Manufacturers and Distributors.

Police uniforms across the U.S. and Canada were in the running for the award.

The London police force changed from traditional black uniforms, typically worn by city police to navy blue.

London Police Chief Chuck Johnson tells the Sentinel Echo.

The New design reflected a look into past uniforms that also feature gray pockets and a gray stripe down the leg of the pants with headlines around Kentucky.

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