♪ >> Public dollars should stay with public schools.

>> Critics of a school choice amendment begin a statewide campaign to work for its defeat.

And this is why people serve.

Words to remember heading into Memorial Day weekend.

And before you jump in the pool, protect yourself from the sun.

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

♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Friday.

I'm Renee Shaw.

I know you're ready for a three-day weekend and thank you for kicking it off with us.

With the primary behind us.

The general election campaign big ends.

You'll see candidates on the November ballot, but also a proposed constitutional amendment on school choice if passed would create a path to allow public funds to be used for private education.

Expect to see speeches, rallies, yard signs and TV commercials for and against amendment 2.

Kentucky edition will bring you both sides over the next 5 months.

And we begin tonight in Perry County, a coalition called Protect our schools, Kentucky rallied yesterday to say amendment to will hurt public education and Kentucky.

>> This year we're facing about your amendment that if approved by voters.

Well, partly changer.

State constitution by allowing public funds or allowing funds for public schools go to private school vouchers games.

This would devastate public education as we currently know it.

The amendment if passed, would allow the General Assembly to fund schools outside.

>> The system of common.

Or public schools in Kentucky.

To be clear it would allow for public money to be funneled to an accountable private schools.

My way of vouchers.

Amendment 2.

Or the bathroom.

Has a lot to college.

By the way, for our state to begin writing, blight shakes to private schools using dollars that should go to public schools and their statements.

This bathroom would siphon money away from the public.

The districts and stars students of critical resources.

They need to save the strongest a UK shun possible and help us set them up for a lifetime of success.

>> I'm here today because as a parent, I'm concerned about what vouchers will data farther.

Exactly right.

The teacher shortage, I'm concerned about how vouchers will negatively impact our schools.

The teacher shortage is real.

Yes, here in Perry County, but also across the commonwealth.

It is difficult to attract and retain teachers at the U.S.. And if that is beginning to divert money from public schools to go to private schools, our budgets are going to get even tighter in cuts are going to have to be might.

How about a fake tower able to recruit teachers in?

Our students deserve the best and brightest.

The Commonwealth has to offer, but to KET them, our schools have to have the resources needed for them to do their jobs effectively.

Are districts need to have enough money to not have to ultimately eliminate teaching position.

>> In every state that is introduce vouchers to this point.

This story reminds the site cleverly crafted promises are made about what Badgers can provide the end as the cost of cap vouchers.

But one more public funds began to follow the way from our public schools to go instead to on accountable private school systems over time the strain placed on public schools by this vouchers game began become too much.

And this laced a radical this investment public schools as a CFO, understand the dollars and stance and what it takes for a school district to run effectively.

Vouchers present runaway budgetary calls for him for every state in which they are currently present.

They're wildly expansive.

And if this amendment passes a Kentucky, it would be no different vouchers would lead to cuts in services.

We will be able to provide our students and families.

Otherwise this will make the teacher shortage worse as we would have took up positions and ADM would require public schools to do more with less.

Our kids and communities deserve better public dollars should stay with public schools so we can all continue to provide the highest possible quality education to all of our students.

Our public schools deserve to be supported our students, our families and our communities are worth it.

>> Protect our schools.

Kentucky is about to launch a statewide campaign with 7 stops across the Commonwealth.

Starting with Paducah on May.

28, there are groups in Kentucky backing the constitutional amendment as they view it as a path for all parents to choose the best education for their children, whether they need public or nonpublic learning options.

Kentucky has picked the company that will replace the state's unemployment insurance system.

Governor Andy Beshear today announced a contract with Deloitte consulting.

Deloitte says it will replace Kentucky's current system with a modern one.

That will mean easier access for everyone.

The system is expected to be ready by 2028.

Kentuckians have criticized the current system for being slow and or performing poorly, especially as unemployment went up during the peak of the COVID pandemic.

10,000.

Kentuckians have died in America's wars since the beginning of World War.

2 during a we wreath laying ceremony today to honor them and other veterans killed in defense of our nation.

Governor Andy Beshear urged Kentuckians to pause during their weekend activities to remember the fallen.

>> I also recognize this weekend that a lot of families are going to get out and have some fun.

And this is why people serve.

There's nothing wrong with that, right to have that freedom to get out and to make those amazing memories with your families.

But I just ask every Kentuckyian every American to take a moment to recognize that the reason that they're getting that freedom, the reason they get to go to that pool that just opened up.

The reason that they get to go to the picnic, the reason they get to have.

>> A good time with their mom and dad is somebody else's mom and dad.

And here today.

>> The governor listed some Kentucky resources for veterans.

He's most proud of including 4 top rated long-term care facilities.

And another one set to open this year in Bowling Green.

A former Commonwealth's attorney is headed to prison.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that today a federal judge sentenced Ronnie Goldie to 3 years and 5 months behind bars.

The maximum time allowed under his sentencing guidelines.

Goldie resigned last year following accusations he traded favors with the defendant in exchange for nude photos.

He was later impeached by the Kentucky State Senate making it the body's first impeachment hearing and trial and 135 years.

Goldie served as the commonwealth's attorney for around one bath Menifee and Montgomery counties for 10 years.

♪ >> Time now for and we review of some major political news this week.

And we've got one who's back for a three-peat this week.

Jarrett Smith with Piper Smith and Abby.

Piper with Piper Smith.

You've seen them before.

So we're going talk about election stuff as if we haven't talked about it a lot.

But when we last left on Tuesday night, there were still some races that had not been finalized.

And so we've we've learned that they have done.

And one of them, a couple northern Kentucky.

The one with that Representative Kim Moser is one.

>> Yeah, I mean, she almost fell victim to very, very low turnout.

And that's what Low turnout.

You know, she's an excellent legislator.

I'm glad that she has survived that.

And, you know, she does a lot of good work for that district.

And so, you know, I'm really glad she survived.

That became too.

Now things are getting word up in northern Kentucky.

There's no other way to say you really bad.

>> They fight for the where to northern Kentucky.

Well, I did not doors in northern Kentuckyian I did not with Representative Moser I wouldn't say weird.

you know, times are definitely continue to shift and that for the right direction.

She's one of the only candidates we know of that, especially in the incumbent category that managed to hold her own against the Liberty faction.

And so, you know, that is notable.

I particularly given the fact that she took some a good amount of and was not.

I mean immune to the things that many others were like.

Representative Timoney and some others where a lot of falsehoods were spread and things were he put out there that weren't necessarily true in an attempt to kind of I urge that Meredith back out there.

So it's a big win the institutional caucus.

I would say that the general be good to have her back.

She's a health care and, you know, anytime you have a lot of turnover in the legislature, it's really good to have institutional memory there.

And she certainly has that particularly in the health arena.

So, you know, it's a it's a win.

Yeah.

>> And some notable losses of Representative Kilian Timoney and the 45th Adrienne Southworth and the 7th Senate District and Representative Richard Haith.

>> Yeah, western Kentucky that the represent Heath last goes to show you that all politics is hyper local.

That was a very local election.

There's a lawsuit filed by him against a very popular family.

I think the lawsuit was served during the patriarchs.

Funeral of the families is bad timing all around and again, once you get you know, if you're in a local election, Gary care about local politics.

Yeah.

TJ Roberts, Ed Massey in the 66th >> District School choice is a big issue there.

That's a constitutional a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November.

You think this is going to be this year's abortion issue?

You know, it very well could But what makes this really different is that really is exacerbated by the rural and urban divide more so than I think that the abortion ballot initiative was.

>> On that when you really really had kind of have to say this, FEMA have to state is male and females looking at the slippery s**** of what health care landscape looks like in the future.

This is really more about.

Do you want state dollars to go to private schools and the fact is the vast majority of our private schools are in those urban centers there in northern Kentucky, right in the Cincinnati Covington.

And and what bleeds through on that.

They're in Lexington there in Louisville to some degree there in Owensboro and Bowling Green.

And so, you know, that's going to take dollars state dollars and funnel them into those urban areas, which is a trend that many Republican rural lawmakers have been trying to reverse and quite frankly care of when it was put into place in 1990, which was specifically designed to take those state dollars and redistribute them more into those poorer and more rural areas to ensure equity.

And so, you know, I think the constitutional amendment is very much about educational equity, funding equity.

And do we really want to put public dollars in private schools in rural and urban areas?

The other thing they have to remember about this is that in most states have already done this.

The vast majority of those funds go to families and students who are already enrolled in public or in private schools.

And you have to really think about is that really subsidizing private education at the expense of public education.

But all of that messaging is really hard to get across.

And the question on the ballot won't contain all of that.

>> So how do you think this is going to go down?

I think it's both sides will be heavily funded.

It's going to be pretty much the talk of the election since.

>> Besides the president of the presidential election, this will be it because there's no Senate race for the big question for us.

And so what I see it's going to be, you know, I don't see real people voting for this.

I don't see anybody outside the trial voting for this, you know, because it's so so easy to say, you know, schools like Sarah and Collegiate and Kentucky Country Day don't need public money.

Why would you give the public life and look at other states is happen.

Arizona's in a world of hurt right now over their voucher program.

So.

>> And I was bankrupted their stay, quite frankly.

And you saw this week actually, the GOP in Colorado asking all families to withdraw their children from public schools.

I'm not sure where they want them to go.

If that's an effort to get them to homeschool private schools.

But that's a very dangerous s****.

>> Let's let's be careful here.

You know this.

I don't want to down, but it's that's the Colorado GOP telling its members to pull their kids out of all public That's insanity.

Yeah, 4, they they for the ground being ground.

Being groomed, right.

Look, if you all think rooms cost, just go, go spend one day to public school and see our those teachers are fighting about this.

Here is that, you know, that half of our public school teachers are Republicans.

I mean, they're not.

>> They're not a doctrine.

8 ing children to become transgender.

And so there's just a lot of misinformation out there.

But but I think Colorado is a great example of that severe misinformation and the byproduct that can become a reality.

Yeah.

>> This is a different election year.

I mean, it is a presidential election, but we know Kentuckians will probably go heavily in one direction, right?

There's no U.S. Senate race is a statewide contests.

So I think, you know, turnout was still a 13%.

I mean, you know it, of course, it will be higher in the general, but interest in this election so far.

You think that will increase?

>> I think that I think people will come out to vote for the amendment.

I do think that will increase turnout a little bit.

I don't think that's going to increase that much, though.

I mean, Biden and Trump are not popular mientras popular here.

But overall, you know, I don't see, you know, Nikki Haley didn't even get what, 6% here.

You Kentucky's were Trump in the West Virginia.

So I don't see people running to the polls except for MAGA.

I don't see people.

Excited to go vote.

Yeah.

How do you said?

I think?

>> Well, in any year that you don't have a large contingency races.

>> You're going to see them radical folks on both ends of the spectrum say that, you know, folks are far left and far right are more likely just as they are on the primaries to go vote.

And so it's important that folks in the middle remember that their voice counts and it is to let let folks know that you they don't speak for you, right and to do that.

But I think turnout is always an issue in and really something we should focus on a lot more.

How do you think Kentucky is a very red state and Trump when he comes to Kentucky, he Charles, big crowds as I don't know that I would assume that they're the apathy around the with Trump on it.

Yeah.

>> Well, so much more to come.

It's been an interesting you all talked about a lot and we've talked about it a lot, I think will put it to bad for a little bit until Fancy Farm, which I don't know if that would be much unless there are some big Sarah get that comes in for a Fancy Farm.

>> Yeah.

The 7th about the end of that century does not speak.

Speak a lot depends on Mitch McConnell chooses to do between now and then if he chooses to continue serving or if you make some kind of announcement with that, which I don't expect.

Okay.

But you know that there is turnover.

And and obviously we're going to have turnover in the Kentucky Senate as well Senator.

They are leaving.

So I think you'll see some different power players begin to emerge and that a comer does have a general election.

So he he will show up and said, yeah, that's right.

And that's in that in that district.

I believe it or hands.

All right.

Well, thank you so much as always.

Good to seen him 3 times this week.

It's good to have a good weekend, guys.

>> Thanks.

♪ >> As you know, Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to summer, which means more time outside, but some exposure and damage can lead to skin cancer.

A nurse with the University of Louisville's Brown Cancer Center explains not only how to protect your skin, but what do you should do and look out for if you do get burned, that in today's medical news.

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♪ >> Would you know how to save a life yesterday in Lexington on stop the Bleed Day.

People learn some valuable life saving lessons from UK healthcare.

>> National stop the Bleed.

A May 23rd.

It originated with Sandy Hook back in 2015 and they evaluate that situation and realize that there were things that people could have done.

Had they known to help save some lives that day.

Very similar to CP Ares been taught in the community and AED machines have been taught.

This is a very simple thing that by standards can do to help increase a person's chance of survival.

And we're trying to heighten awareness in the community of what a bystander can do to help a person that's been injured between injury and the time that the ambulance arrives, the number one preventable death is bleeding.

After an injury.

>> Community members of Gen of the first people who meet the victim, the ones to call 9-1-1.

>> The number one thing we promote is your safety first.

If it's not a safe seen, if you're not comfortable, then by all means we don't want you to get involved in and get hurt as well.

The goal is to help people not increase the numbers of government.

I've never.

>> Come across a massive bleeding, the case and they have been or emergency situations before where it I was hard pressed because I didn't know the skill in the moment, which was to happen to be a very simple skill.

I didn't know it and I panicked because I didn't know to stop the bleed.

Is ABC alert for help?

What help coming?

Because you're supposed to be.

>> The gap in between the injury and when the professionals arrive.

is for alert.

Be is bleeding.

You're going to look over and see where their bleeding and C is for compression.

So you're going to hold pressure if you have to stuff us leave or something in there.

But you're just going to be holding pressure to help slow the bleeding down until the professionals come the person can bleed out in less than 5 minutes in an ambulance after they've been notified may take up to 5 or 7 minutes to get there.

So there is that gap in time that a person could survive of some by standard would just intervene and hold pressure.

You can use a sleeve of a T-shirt if you've got a gym bag.

If you got a gym sock, if you've got towels, if you've got a a rag that you use.

You can use anything in there to stop that bleeding.

If something is still sticking in a patient, we encourage you not to remove it because that's actually doing some of the packing for you.

>> I now have it trained in my brain.

What I need to do in the moment versus because when you get that adrenaline rush a lot of year.

You're thinking ability to zap them out the window.

>> We tell people have their own comfortable with blood if they have grocery bags from Walmart, Kroger any of your standard plastic bags.

That's a nice barrier.

If you're not comfortable with your bare hands, we do encourage people that if you get blood on you to definitely let the professionals that come to the scene, know that you've been exposed to blood.

>> They have physical activities in place.

You're not just it's not just a written our video.

You actually get to do it.

If words now your muscle memory in your core.

And it's something you can carry okay with you so that your life, you can teach your children, you can teach it to your family members.

And if it's simple, it's easy.

>> Good information.

You can buy a kit to use during a bleeding emergency and find out information about classes at stop the Bleed DOT org.

♪ >> The future of work.

It's what a lot of folks are talking about now and just how much artificial intelligence will change, what we do and how we do it.

>> Colin Allred, your human resources, expert and consultant on workplace Dynamics, Communication and leadership.

Talk to me recently about whether ready for I read Revolution.

>> As you can see, huge and Gallup and data.

They said over 50% of employees to not feel ready for any new technology.

So that automated any of that.

And that's coming.

That's it's here.

But it's happening faster in fan Fear at that.

And there's a lot of fear around it.

And so I think some employers have really just kind of buried their hand head in the sand with it and then like we'll get there when we get there and said of addressing it head-on and helping people merge into feeling more comfortable with that technology probably don't know what to say.

They doubt.

Haha, I don't even know what to say at times, but it's it's also just >> having that moment to look ahead, right to pause and look ahead and think where do we want to be?

How do we want in corporate incorporate this?

What would be a strategic way for us to use these type of technologies?

>> Instead of just like waiting to see what comes in the door right?

>> You can see my full interview with Colin Allred and I also talk with writer and activist LaTonya Jones about her new book of poetry about race, family, loss and redemption.

All of that this Sunday morning at 11:30AM, Eastern 10, 30 central on KET connections.

♪ >> If you like music cars, dogs, strawberries or all of the above.

You're going to love your weekend.

Entertainment options.

Here's our Toby Gibbs with what's up around the Commonwealth.

♪ >> Already underway is the Beaver Dam Strawberry Festival.

This sweet event has everything you need to celebrate.

Memorial Day weekend.

Carnival rides live music.

A strawberry cook off and a Memorial Day parade on Monday.

Sure to stick around after the parade for the Salute to veterans.

Starting tomorrow probes 17th spring into summer festival.

Enjoy carnival rides.

Fireworks parachute jumpers and world-class musicians at this two-day event.

This year's headliners, Bret Michaels, you don't want to miss this memorable Memorial Day event.

Lexington Diversity Festival is tomorrow.

This is the 4th and largest festival yet.

Enjoy delicious food.

Watch entertaining performances and learn more about our neighbors, cultures.

There will also be inflatables face painting and games.

So this is a great family friendly event.

Music lovers in liberty.

Listen up.

Tomorrow is the 3rd annual live in Liberty Music Festival.

>> Bring a chair to the city green stage and enjoy live concerts by 5 below the duly gang blacktop Rodeo and more as lots of great music to listen to in liberty this weekend.

>> Every 4th Saturday is summer nights crews.

So don't miss your chance to check out the official car cruise capital of Kentucky tomorrow.

Historic Somerset will be chopped fuel of over 1000 custom classic muscle and highly modified cars.

Be sure to check out B***** alley where you can find food, drinks and motor parts for sale and stop.

Tomorrow is all about dogs at Wickliffe Mounds, State historic site.

Take on a dog-friendly scavenger hunt.

Make a craft with your canine and take of bark.

Mark stands for bags.

Pet waste always use only should respect wildlife and visitors and knows where to go.

And it's a very special doggie designation that helps KET the park, enjoy able for everyone.

>> Also happening this weekend is the Poppy festival at Bethel Springs Farm in Paris.

Enjoy flower picking hayrides farm animals, crafts and more.

The Poppy is the international symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers of the Poppy festival is a great way to celebrate Memorial Day and have a fun far day with the family.

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

Time to begin.

>> Thank youto be Gibbs and we will be celebrating Memorial Day with a special Kentucky edition.

We'll take you on a tour of Kentucky as we drop in on downtown's from Pine Bowl to Paducah.

See what some Kentucky towns are doing to lure in people and businesses.

That's Monday on Kentucky Edition.

We hope you have a great weekend ahead and come right back here.

Monday night at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central.

Take really good care.

I'm Renee Shaw.

Enjoy your weekend and we'll see you next week.

>> So long.

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