♪ >> Marking 3 years since Breonna Taylor was killed by police just days after the release of a federal report that was prompted by her death.

What we are talking about is adult sexual content for children inside the public school building.

Some say or Frankfort bill will protect children.

Others are calling it a book ban.

Code.

They taught us a lot.

Well, now we're focused a lot more flexibility.

How eastern Kentucky University is adapting to address the state's teacher shortage.

One of them just came to my door, knocked on.

It came in, said you want to do something fun.

And I said sure.

And that been a fine is now getting views all over the world.

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The owner Press Endowment for Public Affairs and the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Monday March, the 13th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your Monday night with us U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is now out of a Washington, D.C., hospital.

>> McConnell fell last Wednesday during the hotel dinner and Washington and suffered a concussion.

He left the hospital today.

He will continue his recovery at an inpatient facility.

McConnell is 81 years old.

Today marks 3 years since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police inside her Louisville apartment.

The incident helped sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 Taylor was asleep when police conducted a search warrant and exchanged gunfire with her boyfriend.

Just last week.

The U.S. Department of Justice released a critical report of the Louisville police.

The report said officers routinely get search warrants that are overly broad.

It also said LMPD and the city failed to properly trained police officers and give them the resources needed to do their jobs effectively and lawfully.

Speaking on the U.S. House floor today.

Kentucky's 3rd district Congressman Morgan McGarvey of Louisville said Breonna Taylor should be alive today.

>> Her mom?

I would rather have Brianna live.

The report.

Breonna Taylor's death should not have been the catalyst for change and accountability.

We should have addressed this a long time ago.

Breonna Taylor deserves justice.

While we can't bring her back for her family and friends.

>> We can help KET Briana spirit alive.

We should remember Breonna Taylor.

That's the funny Bryant, caring and loving young woman.

She was and carry her memory with us as we take action to demand lasting change.

>> Congressman McGarvey also called the DOJ report a damning.

It included a series of reforms that LMPD and the city of Louisville have agreed to tackle today.

The Louisville Urban League released its own recommendations.

One change the group wants to see make in contract negotiations between the city and Fraternal Order of Police public.

The current contract is set to expire June 30th.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has said the city's first round of negotiations with the FOP would be private.

>> So much has been done to create a culture of mistrust indoors, even begin to try to rebuild trust leadership.

And I started listening to the community and then responding to what the community is sharing.

By holding up the FOP negotiations to the community.

Mayor Greenberg rejects this opportunity to reveal to ultimately become a trusted training and transparent police force that directors.

>> In addition to greater transparency, the Louisville Urban League said is also wants to see city leaders invest more in non police strategies.

What's the last full week of the Kentucky General Assembly?

It here and legislators are moving a raft of bills before the veto period begins later this week.

>> Those bills include legislation that would give parents the ability to challenge school materials and would give the Senate confirmation power over the state's education commissioner.

Our Casey Parker Bell reports on the education legislation working its way through the legislative process.

>> The purpose of this bill is to address the issues of Penn State may be obscene.

>> Senate Bill 5 establishes a process allowing parents to have materials and programs they find objectionable removed from schools.

Opponents of the measure called the book Ban.

>> This doesn't seem to be coming from a real incident or something local that's that's happened in your community or even in our state that this seems to be part of a national conversation that, you know, has been divisive.

>> But Kentucky Senate president says that this of programs and materials ready in Kentucky referencing an incident and Hazard High school last year.

It was in my backyard that it did happen.

That we had.

He was called twerking with one of the administrators in the school system at a play.

Representative Willner thinks it was appropriate.

Governor Andy Beshear condemned at Holly.

So it is here.

Senate Bill 5 allows parents to submit complaints to school principals about materials are programs in the school principles, then determine if the content is objectionable or should remain in the school.

Parents can appeal to the local board of education if they disagree with the decision.

If the appeal is lost, parents can still request the school, KET the material from their child.

>> What we are talking about is adult sexual content for children inside the public school building.

The school is out of place that that should be taking place for children.

>> But Im a Curtis, a trans woman, says the bill will open a pathway to restrict materials relevant to the LGBTQ community.

>> As a member of that community, it saddens me that so many of our legislators cannot understand the difference between who someone is or who someone loves and sexuality and perversion.

>> And the executive director of the Kentucky chapter of the National Association of Social Workers says that Senate Bill 5 could hurt LGBTQ children.

>> We have a 41%.

41% suicide rate for amazing LGBTQ children in use.

41%.

If that was 41% of straight White, Kentucky kids.

Would we more alarmed?

>> Senate Bill 5 was approved by the House Education Committee.

16 for it.

That same committee also approved a bill that would give the Senate confirmation power over the appointment of new state education commissioners.

>> Unfortunately, what we've seen over the years as we've seen, every governor's tends to believe that they're in charge of the education system.

>> Governor Andy Beshear, reorganize the state Board of Education with an executive order on his first day in office.

Senate bill 107, would also create a committee to make nominations to the governor for the appointment of new board of Education members.

>> It's not a partisan school board, its educators, school boards.

So I mean, you may say that this is following Cara in keeping politics out of education, but I think it makes it right down in politics for Kentucky edition.

>> I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> The full House can now take up Senate Bills 5, 107, moving them closer to the legislative process is finish line.

We're discussing education tonight on Kentucky tonight, specifically student discipline legislation.

The House has passed House Bill 5.38. and the Senate Senate Bill.

202 measures that give educators a pathway to remove on unruly students from the classroom.

Now Kentucky faces a teacher shortage, as you've heard us say, countless times and some site classroom discipline problems as a factor in that teacher shortage will break it all down tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central on Kentucky tonight right here on KET.

Well, there's been a lot of discussion to this legislative session about reforming Kentucky's juvenile justice system.

House Bill 3, which is already cleared.

The House was introduced in the Senate committee this morning with some changes.

Those include delaying implementation of a mandatory 48 hour hold for one year because of staffing concerns also clarified that the whole does not apply to children 10 years and younger.

Still Jefferson District Court Chief Judge Jessica Moore testified against the bill.

She said the tension is already happening in the majority of those cases.

>> The data will show you that 90% of this particular population is already being detained after consideration by that are presented with information from the court designated worker the risk assessment information from the charging officer in charging document all of those facts and circumstances that are unique to each use must be considered in the judges feel very strongly that we are in the best position to consider all those facts and circumstances before making that decision related to detention.

>> House Bill 3 passed a Senate committee today.

It will now be considered by the full Senate membership.

The Legislature is taking steps to address housing concerns in areas of Kentucky devastated by recent disasters.

Today, Senate appropriations and revenue Chairman Chris McDaniel introduce changes to House Bill 3.60, one of them takes 10 million dollars from both the western Kentucky and eastern Kentucky emergency funds and establishes the Rule Housing Trust fund parts of western Kentucky are still rebuilding after tornadoes in December of 2021.

And that killed more than 70 people months later.

Historic flooding in eastern Kentucky killed more than 40 the legislature initially approved about 200 million dollars to help with recovery, but housing remains a major issue.

A bill that provides a tax break on the bourbon industry has cleared its first major hurdle House Bill 5 is sponsored by Representative Jason Petri chair of the in our committee.

It calls for phasing out the tax on bourbon barrels by 2039. today Chairman Pitre told committee members that Kentucky now has less than 3% of the country's distilling permits.

He said it was 25% a decade ago.

He contends House Bill 5 is needed to KET the bourbon industry competitive.

And in Kentucky, but several county officials including police chiefs, fire chief, some superintendents oppose that tax break.

They argue the bill takes money out of their budgets.

Breaking a promise that distilleries made when they moved to Kentucky.

>> Cities have been a big ally of the bourbon industry.

They have used their limited resources to be a good partner by issuing bonds, providing sewer upgrades and other things such as guaranteeing occupational tax credits.

The passage of House Bill 5 takes that all away.

Devastation is the only word to use.

Our budget would be cut by more than 60%.

Leaving us with only the fear and concerns the citizens had with makers locating in our city.

The blanket of black mold traffic and wear and tear of their trucks that will continue to use our streets and the memory of past promises made.

>> Chairman Petri did address some of the concerns from school officials.

He said today his committee also passed House Bill 4.47, which he said would help schools while the bourbon taxes being phased out.

>> This is a companion bill.

That essentially creates a floor to 23 numbers for the local contribution or within the seat for more for the public education system, I think is even some of the gentleman before from low city and county districts it around.

They'll son that indicated there could be some seek backfield.

That's not 100%.

This would get as close to 100%.

It's not exactly what the floor guarantee with a local contribution tied to 23 members.

>> From here on out.

>> Both bills passed committee this afternoon and were quickly passed on the House floor as well.

The bills are now headed to the upper chamber for consideration.

There.

A bill that could give Kentucky's secretary of state more control over election plans is moving forward in Frankfort.

House bill 302, sponsored by Republican Representative Jennifer Decker.

Make some changes to the state's election procedures.

One notable change to the bill includes allowing the county board of elections to petition the secretary of state and not the state Board of elections to consolidate voting precincts or voting locations.

Tabitha Clemens is with the Kent, the Kentucky County Clerks Association.

She testified against the amended bill and a Senate committee this morning signed the current system is bipartisan, something that would be lost if the bill is approved.

>> We do not support giving the the secretary say Sol approval over the county election plans.

We do support maintaining the current system which requires the approval of the bipartisan state Board of Elections, which now includes 2 retired Clark's 3 Democrat 3 Republican members and is chaired by the secretary of State.

During the interim legislative session.

Lawmakers grilled the state Board of Elections for approving voting plans that led to long lines at some voting precincts.

>> Some legislators said they were hoping to hold somebody accountable, but because members of the board of elections are appointed and not elected lawmakers said they felt a legislative fix wasn't needed.

>> And I know that the clerk's don't like it.

But we get to set policy and they implemented.

I certainly taking their considerations.

Up for consideration.

But this is a middle way and we're going to get the secretary of state back involved in approving these voting plans one way or the other.

>> House Bill 302 passed by a vote of 8 to one if approved by the full Senate to go back to the House for approval of the amended language.

As we've reported, Kentucky's teacher shortage continues to present problems for school districts all across the state.

The Kentucky Department of Education recently approved the creation of an expedited teacher certification program and eastern Kentucky University is leading that charge.

It's called the option 9 program and it aims to be more adaptable to the needs of nontraditional college students.

More in tonight's look at Education matters.

♪ >> COVID taught us a lot.

Now we're focused a lot more flexibility.

Meeting the state requirements that still accommodating those students that have different kinds of needs.

Then the pre-covid students.

>> But again, it's all digital.

If you want to >> Option 9 is an expedited alternative route to teach us it to the kitchen.

So what that means in layman's terms is that you can obtain your teacher certification foster than the traditional route, a traditional route to teach acidification in Kentucky requires a completion of a Bachelor of Science in and the man she middle second, the grades in a four-year, usually a four-year program.

The up the option 9 allows you to compete this in 3 years.

Wow, you are and teaching full time in the public schools.

>> There are people that are mid-career that are people that are starting a new career.

A lot of the phone calls I'm having recently are from students who right out of high school started college.

But then life happened.

They got married.

They had kids, but they want to get back into the school setting.

And I think option 9 is a great alternative, an opportunity for us to get those people.

Our Kentucky schools.

We have a real chance here to use option 9.

>> to change the way that we think about who teaches and how are school invest in those teachers early and then throughout their career?

It lets us be co investors with schools as they achieve goals for meeting students needs and meeting teachers needs addressing retention.

Those kinds of things.

>> Candidates in the option 9 still have to meet all the requirements, state requirements.

What we're doing is we're allowing option when candidates to teach full time while they compete, they degree and this is one of many ways that the KU is listening and responding to our our app principles in our superintendents who are desperate for teachers in the schools.

>> The teacher shortage is across Kentuckyian there's no geographic area that's been spared.

The shortage that we have and are classified pair educator positions is equally shared across all geographic regions.

So I think most importantly, this is an opportunity for us to help our Kentucky school children.

And that's what it's all about.

Education Miss Allison other for an app.

So was a William.

Would you help?

>> About 90% of our graduates stay in Kentucky.

Their their ambition is to go back to a public school because their products, a public school and they want to contribute to the the lifeblood of the state by entering into the most important profession in the state.

Lets education.

>> The Frazier History Museum is where the world meets can talking.

But it turns out you don't even have to visit the Louisville Museum to make its acquaintance cows.

Kentucky additions.

Kelsey Starks explains how.

>> Well we've been telling you about all the spectacular and insightful programming at the Frazier History Museum.

And so you may be wondering how you can see and experience all of it when you're not here in Louisville.

Well, Nick Sullivan is here to tell us.

>> How you can and guess what, you don't even have to leave your house as long as you have here.

>> Phone with you.

This is so exciting.

Tell us what is Frazier.

Plus.

>> Yeah, we are very excited about it.

We've been working on it for about a year and it's a it's a way to break down walls.

We want to bring our museum and the stories that we tell and access to the objects and everything that we have in our building outside of the building.

So it's it functions a lot of ways.

It's a way to if you're in the museum and you're excited about something that you see, you're probably going to see an opportunity to to scan a QR code and learn more about that.

We've got videos.

We've got 40 almost 40 videos and it's an ever growing body of stuff and people can get a deeper appreciation of what they're looking at.

If you're standing by that or emerge and vote, you can actually hear turned or even talk about it, which is really great.

>> So this isn't only inside the museum.

One of the really cool aspects of this is site based.

It's it's where you can actually hear stories at the actual sites.

Tell us about that.

>> Yeah, well, we're always looking for a way to tell a new story and doing it in a site outside of the building is such a powerful thing.

So we we partnered with a number of organizations here and we know.

New Albany, Indiana, to create this experience called the journey.

So it's a 45 minute audio tour and its site this site specific.

So you can go.

There's 4 spots here in Louisville and there's 2 spots across the river that all pertain to the story of the black burns who are married couple here and 18 40's.

They were enslaved, but they made an escape and ultimately settled in Toronto.

And their story is just it's it's epic in scope.

And and we tell that story with the help of people like Doctor Ricky Jones and Jermaine Fowler and Shea Smith and also the author of the I've Got a home in glory Carolyn Smarts, Frost, we we use.

We brought all those people together and created this really rich.

You know, there's music.

visual elements to a new using the app on your phone and you can hear this amazing story and be in the places where those things happen.

>> What are some of the other stories that you had, the exhibits that you can really take a deeper dive with with this app?

>> Well, we have 3 fourths of space.

You know, there's 3, 3 fourths of galleries and we have video content now on all 3 floors.

So if you are into the bourbon trail like a real starting point, the bourbon Trail, we've got really great videos.

You can understand the role of the Ohio River and bourbon trade.

You can understand how the Bourbon Act of 1964 impacted what you know what's on our shelves today.

Things like that.

But in our Commonwealth exhibit, which is a really robust look at the history of Kentucky.

We've there's an insulation.

There's an art installation Shea roads, an artist, a University of Louisville Glass installed that has to do with the life of the enslaved.

We have an interview with him so you can watch him work on the pieces and you can hear him reflect on that or just take a deep dive you know, a tattoo, you know, from the American culture that, you know, as thousands of years old that we have on the wall as well.

Yeah.

And then, yeah.

And then of course, my favorite is the Tory murdered and vote.

We've got a great video of her.

You can see her talking about it.

You can see her ruling about the men.

Then we have the American pro at the museum, which is amazing.

>> And amazing expansion outside the laws of the Fraser Museum.

Thank you so much for being here.

Frazier Buzz.

Is that available this month?

You can download it anywhere.

You get your apps.

Google Play the app Store.

We'll be back to you.

>> Thank you, Kelsey.

All Frazier plus content is accessible in the museum and Apple version of the app will be available this month.

♪ A group in Bowling Green proves age is just a number.

They've got the moves and their take on this year's Super Bowl halftime show.

It's getting quite a bit of attention.

>> It may seem like a quiet retirement community.

But the people who live here like to have a little fun.

>> I'm amazed.

>> Of all the tension we're getting.

I believe that people care ladies dancing.

>> Dora Pat and friends are still adjusting to their newfound celebrity status after this TikTok video has racked up 10's of millions of views.

>> I don't know if they want Why a man Mr. Give them a saying new tour.

Why it's been on the national news and, you know, all around the world, we've had people reach out to us from Greece in the UK.

>> That is absolutely amazing.

>> The women even receiving a special delivery from 2 big names in the music business, including the star who inspired their performance.

>> Now, I did know Jay Z some of my friends did not know him.

I never had that mandate.

Flowers at one Then wind Rihanna cent white flowers.

It was just really sweet.

>> Door and had say the group only had to rehearse the routine twice before hitting record and going viral.

That score my.

>> We have a hit be highly, highly day.

Was.

>> We focus a lot on the socialization aspect and just >> how important that is.

A joke sent Maitland Knuckles created the TikTok page at Arcadia Senior living a Bowling Green that's getting so many views and follows.

We just kind of trying to come up with new and fun and engaging ways for the residents to to get out their apartments and do something fun.

Making the resident shine and keeping smiles on their So we just really enjoyed the whole rocked the past couple of weeks.

>> So a door and had to say you never grow too old to have a good time and to enjoy a sense of humor.

My family thinks that's great.

active Bron out here.

This ball, I said, are you the lady in the tic time?

>> I think yes, that's me.

For Kentucky Edition.

It's nice to be know this.

>> I'm Laura Rogers.

And we're glad to give you some shine.

The Super Bowl video is up to nearly 4 million views.

>> And counting.

Kentucky State song, a legendary railroad engineer and a game show host all make an appearance as our Toby Gibbs takes a look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> It took more than 100 years after the end of the Civil war before Kentucky finally ratified the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the amendment that granted U.S. citizenship to people who had been enslaved.

The General Assembly.

Okay.

The amendment on March 18th 1976.

Happy birthday to history's most famous railroad and celebrated in story and song.

>> Casey Jones died but managed to save his passengers during a train collision in Mississippi in 1900.

He was born March 14 to 18.

63 in Fulton County, Kentucky.

And Happy birthday to game show host and Ashland native Chuck Woolery Wharton 3/16/1941, woolery was the first host of Wheel of Fortune and later hosted Love Connection.

Lexington's First TV station WLTX began programming on March.

15th 1955. since it was like seeing tons pioneer station Governor Lawrence Weatherby showed up for the opening wearing a c*** skin cap.

Belt out.

Your own rendition of my Old Kentucky Home on March 19th.

That's the day in 1928.

When the Kentucky General Assembly adopted the Stephen Foster tune as the official Kentucky State song.

And those are a few of the big events this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.

>> Thank you as always.

To begin what we hope.

We'll see you again tomorrow night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central for Kentucky edition where we inform connect and inspire.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Take good care.