>> tips.

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>> Could Kentucky's a student teachers finally be getting a paycheck?

I'm not who they are taking a picture because of that one mistake that.

How one Louisville school keeps at risk, students engaged and coming back to class.

>> The whole like sleep when you die doesn't really work.

We need to prioritizing sleep in making sure that everybody has the chance to fully restore itself.

>> Plus, why a medical professional says it's important to prepare for daylight saving time.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KET Millennium Fund.

♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Friday, we made its March 8.

Thanks so much for joining us.

I'm Renee Shaw and we appreciate you kick it off your weekend with U.S.. Student teachers may finally get paid for their time in the classroom.

Kentucky's House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 3.77.

The bill would also pay some tuition dollars for aspiring Kentucky.

Public school teachers, a retired high school teacher sponsored the bill.

Details as we begin tonight's Legislative update.

>> This would pay student teachers, a stipend of $5,000.

It would in teachers would also have an opportunity for Len forgiveness after they graduate.

It for public school.

Teachers went to graduate work in a public institution.

>> On Tuesday, Doctor Pollio superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools spoke in committee and he called to action for us to do 3 things, get more teachers in the seats and KET them there.

Get more bus drivers and get our students to school this bill directly impacts getting more teachers in the seats and supporting him when they get there.

So I fully support this bill.

College students would commit to teaching at a public school for one year for every semester of study.

The state pays for.

>> If they take up that offer.

Now getting out of jury duty could become easier for some Kentucky ends under a bill being considered in Frankfort, Senate bill.

One 53 calls for amending a juror form to give those 70 years and older a chance to be permanently excused from jury duty.

The bill was sponsored by 76 year-old Republican State Senator Johnny Turner of Harlan.

>> Under existing law that we passed a year ago.

It's a is that if you're 70 years or older, you can be excused for that term that you're caught.

When you're 7 years or older and they you get if you for that term, if they send you a form next year, 2 years, you just feel out and say I want to be.

And that could go on.

If you live to be 90 years.

Oh, you're not do that tonight.

So all this bill, does it say it is if you are 70 years or older, you can add now and say I want to be permanently be used.

Don't waste taxpayer dollars on filling out forms.

Making me fill out a form and I get into my own.

I might be out the People like to take vacations every now and then.

But the sheriff about the white known you for not showing up this jury service.

When you get back from Florida on a vacation about.

>> The bill passed the full Senate today with support and opposition of the Bill Crossing Party lines.

>> Communications with my court officials have been quite different and they are a concerned from judges, prosecutors and others that were removing a segment of the demographic that has been previously stated is rich in life experience and value.

>> I think there are valid times when so one of the on 70 years of age should be exempted from this.

I would have been much more comfortable if the bill would have allowed the judge to simply make that decision.

My understanding of this bill dies is that if you're 70 and older.

>> You only have to opt out.

What's I mean?

You don't have to opt out each and every time they ask you for jury duty.

I think if you're going to opt out once unless you have something significantly changes, you should be opted out.

So I vote yes.

>> I decided to support this bill.

Because of the multiple multiple calls out.

I've gotten over the years and I do think we owe that respect to our aging population.

>> Instead of assuming that they are just going to opt out because they are lazy.

The Senate didn't act out because, well, frankly.

They're they're making very good decisions for themselves.

>> The bill passed the Senate today and now heads to the House for consideration.

There.

Well, there was plenty of star power in Frankfort this week.

First, it was a former NBA and UK basketball player yesterday.

A country music singer more and our end of the week review of legislative action.

We call postscript.

Eddie Montgomery joins state Senator Whitney Westerfield to support Senate Bill 3.17.

It's the latest piece of legislation to come out of Frankfort, but attempts to address artificial intelligence or AI.

>> Very simply this bill is did a I'm and specifically the use of AI to spoof the name, the likeness, the sound.

>> The part of the intellectual property of artists like Mister Montgomery, when others use artificial intelligence and other digital technologies to take our was isn't like this from us without our consent and you zoom in ways we don't prove it is a personal and fundamental violation.

That strikes at the heart of who we are.

What we do.

>> Senate Bill, 3.17 passed out of committee and now heads to the Senate for consideration by the full membership.

More parents in Kentucky who failed to get their kids to school will be headed to court under a bill that passed the House Thursday under House Bill 6.11 if a student has 15 on excused absences, schools would have to file a complaint against a parent or guardian with the county attorney.

If the student is in a diversion program and missus 4 days, a judge who gets the case, the bill only applies to kindergarten through 5th grade.

Critics of the bill say getting more families involved in the court system does more harm than good.

But supporters say the goal isn't to punish parents or guardians, but to make them accountable.

>> Attendance is the most important factor in a student's academic success and our schools funding are tied directly to students.

Attendance.

We have to take effective action.

And this bill brings accountability to parents and guardians that allow their children to miss an unacceptable number of days in school.

What I feel like we're doing with this bill is we're attempting to legislate a statewide decision for system.

>> That is actually working very effectively in many local regions with their local discretion.

The losers in this are the kids aren't going to school.

They have no advantage.

They're not getting said they have no one taking watching them and taking care of them.

>> I explaining a yes vote.

I think that this is needed.

I trust our school personnel to know the difference between kids who are truly being truant versus kids who truly need help and their families need help.

>> I'd be absolutely ashamed of myself.

If I was a no on that board right now, you have to give up on the cans of Kentucky.

I didn't know.

>> And I have not given up on the children of Kentucky.

>> The bill did pass the House and now will be sent to the upper chamber for action by the full Senate there committee.

Well, we have Kentucky reaction tonight to President Joe Biden.

State of the Union address last night.

First on the Republican side, U.S.

Senator Mitch McConnell.

>> Given his before munch, it does best he could to try to explain a very bad record.

40 implosion.

Wide open.

So that.

It's hard to find anything President Biden could show he accomplished other than spending huge amount of money and or running up that night from the show said it was a tough sell and he couldn't make it.

>> The only Democrat in Kentucky's congressional delegation, Congressman Morgan McGarvey of the 3rd district said, quote, We have the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

Historic job creation and record investments in American manufacturing and climate change resiliency.

We're fixing potholes, upgrading our roads and bridges creating good-paying union jobs, lowering costs and building our economy from the bottom up and middle out tonight makes it clearer than ever that this year Americans have a choice between a future of progress and compassion or hatred and conflict and quote.

Time now for in the week reveals a major political developments this week.

key with a real dynamic duo without a doubt.

>> We have the new executive director of the Kentucky Democratic Party, Morgan ease, which she's not new to us are new to you.

You've seen a lot.

And of course, one of our other faced Ray Watson, who is a former.

>> A spokesperson for the Republican Party of Kentucky.

And he is the founder of Capitol reins PR.

So let's talk about some national stuff.

First McConnell's endorsement of president former President Donald Trump.

You know, he criticized Trump over his parts and the insurrection or the Capitol riot on January 6, 2020 wanted called that shameful and disgraceful.

But yet here we are.

Tre Watson.

There seem to be back in the fold.

Is it surprising that McConnell would come out and say he's supporting Trump as he is considered to be the presumptive nominee for president for the fall.

>> I say 2 things.

One, the endorsement milquetoast at best.

I think it is basically he has the requisite number of delegates.

Therefore, I support him.

It was it was the political equivalent of the animal House line.

Why not?

We need the dues, you know, at first it But, you know, and the problem for for leader McConnell is when you are leader the same thing when I when I was.

>> The state party at Morton's sure you experience and that's what the party you lose some of your personal agency when you're in a leadership role like that.

Little Mitch McConnell's not just to Mitch McConnell is not just a senior senator for the Comet, Kentucky.

He's also the leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate.

He's got to think about what's best for the body that he leads and what's best for the body that he leads to try to take the majority in the fall is he's for him as much as he may hate it to come out and had this endorsement.

I'm sure it's something that Mitch McConnell, the person it may even it's called the senator would want to do.

But Mitch McConnell, the leader with with the the agency afforded to him in that slot at its its.

That's the role that he had that he had to take care, which for some Republicans is disheartening, right?

That now is a chance for Mitch McConnell since he is not going to be the Republican leader after the November election to stand his ground.

And so to make a principled point.

>> But I think he takes is his role in the caucus extremely seriously.

He risk has great respect for the caucus.

Great reverence for the chamber.

And if endorsing Donald Trump and the bill, whatever way they did.

Like I said, what the UN called a strong endorsement was an endorsement endorsing Trump take the majority for Republicans this fall.

It's what he feels like.

He had to do it later.

>> By any means necessary.

Morgan A's at how the Democrats talk this up.

Now.

>> I think there is a duty of a party, particularly a leader of a party to recognize when a candidate is good when a candidate is not good.

Clearly much McConnell as a person does not former President Trump is either a good person nor good candidate.

This should have been his opportunity to stand his ground.

He didn't do that.

And I think that shows the rest of America.

Why the modern-day Republican Party as a party that's willing to fall in line, which is not a good thing for democracy.

But if the shoe was on the other foot and Democrats were in a similar situation, >> you would would would that not be what the Democrat with a leader would do?

>> I can assure you that if the current President Trump was in fact, a Democrat, you would see Democrats standing up and not endorsing him because he's facing.

I don't know how many federal charges.

He's an elections in Iran.

He said yes, he someone that encourage violence and try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power that is not someone we would want as a party representing us in representing our country on the world stage.

So, you know, I think it would it's easy to say now.

But when you look at the primary results, the fact that forget the party apparatus.

>> Republican voters are voting for the guy, whether we like it or not.

I think, you know, as as a party, if you're a if you're truly a bottom up party, which is what I think both parties normally claim to be.

>> I don't know how is a is a leader of the party that position on the high.

You can go the other way because you're your party is telling you and your voters are telling you, this is the guy we want when we may not like it, but it's what the voters that don't at us.

And now it's the identity of the Republican Party that the shift has been punctuated.

>> For sure now that it's not the party of Reagan conservatism, that it's now the party of Donald Trump populous.

Yeah.

But today we're not.

Laura Trump is the is the best vice chair.

So right now the head of takeover is complete.

Let's shift and talk about what's happening in Frankfort.

So things are happening.

And Frankfort allegedly allegedly things are happening in Frankfort.

>> So I had to ask it this way.

But like the favorite bill of the week, like the thing you think.

>> Not just got attention, but should have got attention.

Drew attention.

>> We'll get more attention and action.

>> You know, we talk about for this.

There's not much that's pass.

And because the budget is kind of holding everything up.

I think that interesting bills, the the adult business bill that got a lot of noise last year from Lindsay to sure that blast was almost solely focused.

It drag brunches and drag look hours and stuff like that.

And I think it's an interesting example of house.

You can take a idea that might have a little bit of validity to it, but it's kind of out there and drop back to turned into a relatively common sense Bill.

Now, basically just bans adult They'll know bookstores or toy shops or strip clubs or whatever from being certain distances from daycares and schools, which a lot of places already have his own ordinances, but some places don't.

So it just kind of formalize that it makes a uniform across the state.

I think it's it's fairly common sense, bill.

And it just shows that you can take some of these not hear bills and didn't turn it into something that that's that's relatively useful.

That even a little of the LGBTQ activists night, they they didn't have a problem with the bill this year.

That's right.

It seems reasonable guy.

Morgan, what do you have your eye on?

I think the most interesting bill this week was the veto override of House Bill 18, which prevent it was a bill that would prevent local cities.

You know, municipalities from enacting source of discrimination bans for housing.

>> And it's so interesting because the GOP used to be the party of local control.

What that Bill does is prevent local control.

So it's really interesting to see that shift and to see how the GOP clearly doesn't get that.

They don't get that.

They're moving away from the party of local control.

I think if you talk to people at the Kentucky link of cities, they will talk about how they are constantly banging their head against the wall for that very reason.

So it's interesting to see kind of federal approach coming down to the state level because the feds have moved away the GOP and and DC has moved away from local control as well.

So it's interesting to see that shift here in Frankfort.

But I'll say, you know, I think that the Republican Party S is not looking trouble are also not so that individual rights and about about property rights and that specifically was aimed at stopping.

>> Local governments from taking away the property rights for for property owners to to manage who can and can't rent rent their property from the ice on their source yeah payments that has.

>> Section 8 housing vouchers that setting.

I think sometimes that's the that's the difficult part of the principal.

Sometimes you do principal b*** up against each other and you get to choose choose which went inside with.

And usually the party even comes low control is going to is going to choose personal rights, personal property rights over the local the trolls.

I think that's what you saw it with the veto.

>> A lot to KET our eyes on.

You guys are always fantastic.

Love the energy.

Have a good weekend to get more energy to kahului or ♪ >> a Louisville alternative school is beating the odds on true truancy and dropout rates.

Breckenridge Metro High School takes a special approach with its students.

One that is seen as a 10% increase in daily attendance rates in the last year.

>> We talk about change in elevating a student by changing their playground is is the message we sent and what that means is helping them figure out how to be successful in their community, change, whatever it is about their community, that that led them to trouble to begin with or get out if they need to.

All of our students are placed here for various >> that that have have caused him to have to be removed from from a comprehensive school system.

>> Actually was surprised.

Light never thought outside of school is going have more devotion and more power in the regular school.

>> We meet with every student that is placed here from from the get we have their parent come in and we meet with the student and we have a long conversation about what their goals are, what they want to achieve in life and what led them And then we lay out a plan for every student from day Okay.

This is what you said.

You want to do what you want to be.

Here's the plan on how we're going to get you there.

Your job is to work with us to execute.

What are you interested in?

How do you like to learn?

And then we connect everything they do in this building to that.

>> This school means a better chance is a better way to be helped a better way.

To be understand because like any at the same, some public schools like regular schools or charter schools.

They understand you, but they don't they can't really with you because they go buy their books pools here.

You still go buy a book symbols.

But they actually can see down below K, let me understand you and not just the figure of you or you the day we want you to be.

>> You know, there's a reason to get up and come to school.

They know they're going to come and get to do what they're passionate about.

Not just sit in a desk worksheets.

And that's how we that's how we've managed to change, flip the script, so to speak and get them in the building.

>> The support team here no matter what they support too, even going to go is to support you.

They're one call away.

They really are like they really are there for you like a 3rd family or second family to anybody.

>> From my experience dead, I want to be looked at as a a bad person like go wrong like that.

A person who can't get out of something.

But I feel like the longer to we're going to be here and the more you get to know and you see that and they don't look at you like that.

>> I'm not who they are.

>> Pope at new because of that one mistake at me.

Or do with Betty.

>> Welcome.

Bush graduated early this past semester.

She received a black history makers of tomorrow scholarship.

And we'll go to South Carolina State University.

Good for her.

♪ >> This Sunday, Americans will set their clocks forward one hour for daylight Saving time.

The upside of springing forward more daylight.

The disadvantage less sleep.

And today's medical news tips on how to adjust to the time change.

>> Losing an hour of sick.

Ron Oakley is a kind of like jet lag, right?

So they're going to be some people that are impacted by it at all.

And maybe they're just tired for a couple days after that, they're able to acclimate.

And then there are those people that are more prone to insomnia and general and those people might have more trouble at the meeting to the time change.

So sleep and general allows everybody to restore it processes.

Right?

So it allows us to create memories, sort of go through the day unconsciously, And it allows us to also go to our immune >> so its important that your body gets the chance to rest because most Americans are going to all day long.

And the whole like sleeping you die doesn't really work.

We need to prioritizing sleep in making sure that everybody has the chance to fully restore itself.

Getting a nice, good sleep or sleep routine where you're going to bed around the same time and waking up around the same time every day.

I'm eating nice.

Nutritious getting lots of exposure to sunlight.

Outdoor activity is great if you can incorporate it in the morning.

That's awesome.

But sort of any time during the day and then always limiting screen time out before bed.

Not he knows heavy meals before bed, not exercising.

Sort of right before bed.

I'm doing all of those things can help you sort of happening to the time change, but also just create like an overall good sleep health.

>> Republican State Representative Steven don't has introduced a bill that would do away with daylight saving and KET Kentucky on standard time all year Round House Bill 6.74.

Has not yet been assigned to a committee.

♪ Taco lovers.

And who was that?

We have an event coming up that you're going to love.

Our Toby Gibbs explains that and more in tonight's around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> Pride Taco Week is back in Lexington starting Monday over 27 restaurants will be offering their unique taco creations from the authentic Mexican taco tequila filled cupcakes.

The crate Taco Week specials will be $7 and $0.50 for 3 tacos.

So this is a great opportunity to tour the local taco scene without breaking the bank.

Music lovers in Madisonville should pencil this event into their calendars, hooked on classics by Orchestra, Kentucky is coming to the Our Center for the Arts next Friday.

This performance features classical music's most recognizable tunes, including the 18 12 Overture and Rhapsody in Blue.

Even if you don't all the titles, you're sure to know the songs make it out to Madisonville next Friday.

♪ Like Cumberland doesn't have many swimmers this time of year.

But tomorrow a group of brave souls will be taking the plunge for a good cause.

The 2024 Lake, Cumberland Polar Plunge is happening tomorrow.

At least 4 resort marina.

And you're invited to die than to raise money for Special Olympics, Kentucky.

Even if you don't get in the water, come out to see the great costumes and cheer on the chilly contestants.

Shelbyville is kicking off spring with its 3rd annual arts and crafts festival tomorrow.

Inside the floral hall of the county fairgrounds, you'll find one of a kind arts and crafts across the commonwealth.

>> While you shop be sure to check out the food trucks and fairgrounds pavilion for some tasty treats.

This weekend will be springing forward with daylight saving time.

But if you're itching to go back in time, it was a theater in Glasgow has the perfect event for you tomorrow evening.

Check out the these rock and roll show will be performing the best rock music in the 50's 60's and 70's.

Get ready to sing, clap and dance the night away at this great live music events.

Madam, a brazen like described by its author is a children's story for adults and it's helping at the Woodford Theater in Versailles next Thursday.

After June father passes away, she praise for a killer to come to her small town soon after a doctor literally blows into town in a hot air balloon.

George, every illness in sight.

But not everything is as it seems with the bear, a cult dealer into the woods for theater for this unique coming of age story.

You won't want to miss it.

And that's what's happening around the Commonwealth.

I'm going to get >> Thank you as always.

To be Gibbs, Kentucky is about to make historic investments in the lives of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

>> And the House budget is like the nominal.

We have never seen so many slots allocated.

>> More on this legislation and how it would help Monday on Kentucky Edition.

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