>> They are going to know what maybe this program if this is what I want to do, the rest of my life.

Some Kentucky high school students are learning about medicine and not just from a textbook.

>> The first thing you need to do when you see a vehicle inside the road is to slow down.

>> But that's not all the new push to make you move over.

We serve students preschool up through graduation, but we also help families.

And how schools are preparing for the cold months ahead.

>> What action 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 this Monday, October, the 17th, we hope you had a great weekend.

>> And thank you for spending part of your Monday night with us.

October is domestic Violence Awareness Month and advocates and survivors and victims say there's plenty of work to do still.

And Kentucky.

>> Some of these advocates were on hand as Governor Andy Beshear signed the domestic violence awareness proclamation today at the Capitol.

>> Kentucky's rates of domestic violence.

It ranks high in the nation and so does its rates of child abuse.

And since we know that domestic violence is widely underreported, we can assume that these numbers are even higher.

This means that it any given moment.

A large percentage of Kentuckians are grappling with us, the visible and invisible effects of trauma, including people in this room.

People in this building and people watching right now from their laptops and their phones.

>> My Angeles poem still I rest.

Best explains My daily experience serving survivors.

Because in the face of oppression, abuse, fear and brutality.

Survivors still seek help.

Joy possibilities and they strapped to rats.

And so must we.

We as a community as a society can join this message to take the actions necessary to help survivors and their children.

We may not be able to control every act of harm.

Pain.

But we're not powerless.

>> The national Coalition against domestic violence as in Kentucky, 45% of women and 35% of men have experienced intimate partner violence.

Domestic violence includes some homicides and Kentucky's second largest city just set a new homicide record.

Police say someone stabbed a man to death Friday night on Bryan Avenue in Lexington.

That victim was 53 year-old Robert Rollis junior.

According to the Lexington Police Department.

That was the 38 homicide in Lexington so far this year.

That breaks last year's record of 37.

So far, no arrests in that case has been made.

Individuals and groups that work to fight the opioid epidemic can now apply for money from the state to help with that fight.

The state's opioid grant proposal portal opened today.

Kentucky received 478 million dollars in a settlement with pharmaceutical companies then make and distribute opioids.

There's a website where organizations can apply.

The Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission continues to have town halls around the state to get people's input about the drug scourge.

You can see more of our congressional candidates tonight on Kentucky tonight.

We're looking at the races in districts 4, 5, 6, So you can see that at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET a week from tonight will discuss the 2 constitutional amendments on the ballot on November.

The 8th.

Over the weekend, the League of Women Voters of Kentucky came out against amendment one.

That's on Kentucky's election ballot in November.

It's the proposal that would allow the Senate president, speaker of the House to call a special session right now.

Only the governor can do that.

The league in a statement says the proposed changes allowed too many options for legislative action without adequate notice and open meetings that would allow for substantive public input.

The Kentucky Board of Education approved 10 regulations relating to public charter schools in Kentucky during its two-day meeting last week.

The new rules were needed to comply with a new Kentucky law that set up a funding mechanism for charter schools that were approved in 2017.

Northern Kentucky journalists.

Mark Payne talk with the earlier today about the his deep dive is publication is Don about charter schools.

How northern Kentucky is required by law to have one of the state's 2 pilot projects and the status of an ethics complaint filed by a public education union against a sitting state lawmaker.

Mark Payne, the government and politics reporter for Link Nky.

Thank you so very much for a little bit of your time.

>> Yeah, thanks for having me.

Run at.

>> So let's talk about and some movement on charter schools.

House Bill 9, that is law.

We know that Northern Kentucky is one of the areas that House Bill 9 said there would be a pilot project and the other location.

Louisville in KU northern Kentucky University may have a role and Arthur rising.

>> Charter schools explained to us the connection between Northern Kentucky University and how are charter school would come to be in that region?

>> Yeah, absolutely.

And bird, you're not familiar.

You know, House Bill passed a funding mechanism for for schools as well as establish the Kentucky Public Charter School pilot program with one of those destinations in northern Kentucky.

School needs to be centrally created by July of next year or at charter application approved.

Not a school going in, but an application approved.

And so and these areas where chart our charter pilot programs approval and northern Kentuckyian northern Kentucky, northern Kentucky University was mentioned as the authorize or and that bill and of course, an authorize or as a public entity responsible for oversight of the charter school and and know the Kentucky that's in KU.

And it's really interesting because when the bill came out this past legislative session in case you didn't know that they were who didn't.

So they kind of had to do some backtracking.

Kind of see what it would mean for the university to be an authorize or and that's something that they're still exploring they have the option to choose whether or not there are an awful riser by January.

First 2023, they are in the process of looking into what it means for them.

One side, they have a border regions meeting on November 9th, but it's unclear for going It will make a decision on that day.

They could call a special meeting to before or after that day.

And if they choose not to.

I'm certain leaders from school districts and northern Kentucky get chosen and they could create a board to be like an authorize or but the balls and K use court right now and they still have yet to make a decision.

>> And so just to reiterated when this bill was being negotiated, I guess you could say Northern Kentucky University asked for permissive language to allow them to be an authorized but not mandate that they're an authorize or that's what's giving them the ability to decide maybe perhaps on November 9th when they made or special meeting like you just mentioned.

So we'll have to see what happens on November 9th or even later.

I did want to ask you about another connection to a state representative Kim Banta whose husband is involved with ovation, which venue there in northern Kentucky that there are some property adjacent to ovation that's being looked at as possible.

A charter school site.

Can you connect those dots for us?

>> Yeah.

So when the bill came out, there was a lot of speculation that a charter school could be at the Ovation Project, which is going to be a high scale residential development that set on what used to be the projects are at Proj Housing project in Newport, Kentucky.

>> There were rumors that the school is going to go on there.

Will a school couldn't go on there because internal revenue bonds show that the school couldn't go on that site.

>> However, the and doing pursuing this article, I found that the group that wants to bring a charter school.

>> Wants the school to be across the street.

So Bill Butler is the CEO of Corporex >> he is the.

>> And Corporex is the company that's responsible for bringing the innovation project to Newport.

I'm Kim Ban Representative Kim Banta, who is a Republican from Taylor Mill.

Her for Fort Mitchell.

I'm sorry.

Her husband is the vice president of real estate for that company.

And so there's a lot of, you know, they're tied together and the there was an ethics complaint filed against can ban to saying that, you know, because of her husband's role with immigration and potentially a school going across the street or on the side of the time that, you know, she should have recused herself from the Kentucky, one, 20 united, a teachers union and, you know, filed the complaint against her saying that her connections just are simply a conflict of interest and she could potentially stand to benefit financially from that school.

>> And she is a member of the House Education Committee that advance that bill to the House floor where there was a pretty narrow margin of victory.

51 to 46.

So that's also part of the route of that comply that perhaps if she had been recused in allowed to vote, they could have maybe turned out in a different way.

We do.

Why did that ethics investigation or the Ethics Commission Legislative Ethics Commission was scheduled to meet?

Did they take this up or when can we expect some type of decision when it comes to whether or not representative Banta could face some kind of ethics charges.

>> Yeah, they met last it's unclear what they discussed in executive session.

So the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission will not acknowledge that a complaint exists.

It's something that they don't It's the complaint is public because the group that filed the complaint, it has made it public and it's news press conferences around But they met with ethics Commission met last week.

They went into executive session regarding complaints.

But I followed up with them afterwards.

And they said that there was no decisions made on any public So it's unclear.

You know, when they could potentially make a decision on this complaint.

Yeah.

>> Well, we'll KET our eyes on it.

We thank you.

Mark Payne with link Nky for doing this.

I'm thank you for your enterprising and comprehensive reporting on the status of what's happening in northern Kentucky when it comes to charter schools.

We really appreciate you.

>> Thank you for that.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> A Web site is now up for people to apply for student federal loan relief.

This is after President Biden announced a plan a few weeks ago to forgive up to $10,000 debt for anyone with an income of last that 125 grand a year.

People who received Pell Grants could get $20,000 in relief.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy says 563,000 Kentuckians could benefit from this and Kentuckians will not have to pay income tax on debt.

That is forgiven.

Martin County's judge executive resigned Friday Wy MTN reports Colby Kirk is leaving the job to become CEO of one East Kentucky.

A group that recruits businesses to the region.

Kirk is a Republican p was up for re-election as county judge executive next month but will withdraw.

Kirk says he will serve until October 28th and will work to ensure a smooth transition to his successor.

Kirk has only been in office since January when he replaced Victor Sloan, who died of cancer.

The counties under a burn ban job from 15 to 20.

Now it's 41.

>> That includes Fayette to the second largest county in the state in population.

Burn bans differ from county to county, but they usually include a ban on all outdoor burning Kentucky's forest fire season last until December.

15th.

Kentucky law requires drivers if possible to move over when passing a law enforcement or emergency vehicle on the side of the road.

And there's talk now of making that law tougher.

We spoke with bluegrass Triple A about why moving over keeps everybody safer.

>> So every 3rd Saturday in October.

What is next?

We'll move over day.

And that's a day set aside to recognize that folks put their lives on the line to help out every day of the year.

>> Working roadside, whether it be law enforcement.

>> First responders tow truck drivers.

>> All those people are out there trying to help others and we need to recognize that.

Not only is there a law that says we need to slow down and the possible move over a lane.

When we come upon the situations.

But also that the right thing to do.

We want to make sure that those folks who have to work roadside get home to their families.

At the end of the day safely currently in Kentucky, we do have a slow down move over law, but it's specific and then it applies to emergency and public safety vehicles with flashing lights.

We'd like to expand that line.

So that includes others who are working along side the road.

So that might be utility City County vehicles road you know, working in road construction.

>> And we like to even expanded.

So that includes of people who are maybe road say changing their entire or otherwise with their disabled vehicle.

>> We know that that's also a danger.

And what that think about it.

>> For 5 year period here in Kentucky, we have we've had 28 people who were struck and killed because they were with their stranded vehicle on the roadside in were hit by oncoming traffic.

>> So we're going to be asking legislators to expand the a current slow down move over.

I'm live here in Kentucky course.

The session starts in but we're kind of putting plans in the work asking safety partners to join us with this.

We think that this is something that can really be bipartisan.

Everyone should want.

>> To KET Kentucky unsafe.

And this is another way to address that.

>> So the first thing you need to do when you see a vehicle side, the road is to slow down.

Take your foot off the accelerator and then check traffic to see if you can safely move over.

If you can't just proceed with caution in your lane and be sure that you stay in the lane.

Don't get too close to that shoulder.

If it's possible to move over a lane so that you're further from the incident do that this is so easy to do.

All you need to do is reduce your speed and move over and you can connect keeps everyone safe.

>> Bluegrass triple a also said that impaired and distracted driving contributes a roadside deaths.

They urge all drivers to be sober and alert when getting behind the wheel.

NASA says it will try again to launch the Artemis Lawn to the Moon on November 14th.

There's a 69 minute window just ever after midnight when a launch as possible.

Technical problems forced NASA to scrub the first 2 launch attempts, hurricane and prevented the 3rd.

There's also a Kentucky connection to all this.

The Artemis is carrying a satellite made at Morehead State University that will look for water on the moon.

NASA hopes to eventually return human beings to the The Kentucky men's basketball team is 4th in the first Associated Press poll of the season, which is out today.

North Carolina's first the football Wildcats moved up in the latest AP football poll.

The cats moved from 22nd to 19th after beating Mississippi State this past Saturday in Lexington to snap a two-game losing streak.

Students at the Central High School PRI medical magnet program are now getting an up close look at a career in medicine.

Thanks to a new partnership with U of L Health, the new pre Medical Magnet Pipeline program allows students to shadow doctors, witness surgeries and even practice skills like Souter ring.

>> Medical schools for years, high schools for years.

And that was really are our to let the 3rd year of medical school students are out of the classroom and around in the hospital in our students will be as well for the students will rotate through all of the port for chips and medical students to be joy in surgery psychiatry and then finding their senior year they get to match so they get to choose what specialty and are interested in learning more about it really prepares you for the kind of experience that you'll be getting in the future.

I'm in labor and delivery and I'm seeing a whole bunch of different surgeries procedures.

>> A lot of test Ren and different things that you would see in a hospital setting up like that on to patient's bare skin.

>> They get to see both aspect that you get to utilize in the in the classroom.

And then they're also seeing everything at the hospital when they're here in the classroom.

They get extra help.

We have a lot faculty members, medical students coming in.

They teach a lot of the content.

We learned medical terminology last year in.

I'm taking some of the words that we mix together in here breaking them down in the hospital.

So whenever somebody >> a to me, I know.

Well, that's the surgical removal of fibroids will letters top not only their teacher, but also by health care providers, nurses, and we'll also have my fantastic didactic says, well.

>> Where they learn how to draw blood, learn how to do sutures in those kinds of things.

I've always wanted to be a medicine.

>> And I'm now able to.

Actually make a decision on where I want to be in life.

>> Just being able to see things while you're in high school as a junior or senior, it can really show you if you're a suitable for a hospital setting or not, not a lot of people get that opportunity.

>> Its immersive is this is an equally important part is for the student says, yeah, I would do this program that relies medicine was not for me.

>> You know, they're going to learn that before they get to their junior year of college and they've already decided it's been all that money all that time and have to have a >> a switch.

They are going to know when they leave this program.

If this is what I want to do, the rest of my life.

>> A lot of kids.

They don't know if they can be because they don't know the it's an option.

What we want to show them is.

>> Hey, that could be me.

>> I fully believe that one of which with the education knowledge and resources, the people that are going to stop gun violence and people are going to stop housing, insecurity move will of the people that are from the community.

This is the best way to not only recruit doctors and nurses, which we desperately need need a little, but also to allow will provide an opportunity for the students who are raised and moved to eventually care for the community that raise them.

>> More than 20 central high school seniors are shadowing different specialties such as OBGYN Anastasia Students of the program also gain dual credit through the University of Louisville.

♪ As you notice, temperatures are starting to drop and schools are making sure students and their families have what they need to stay warm.

A donation drive is underway in Bowling grain to make sure all of those who need a jacket have a good winter coat.

>> As the seasons change, our needs especially when it comes to how a family service centers serve their students and their we to probably have a higher number of requests coming in for clothing, specifically coats that will help our students.

A move in transition from summer to fall into really winter temperatures.

It's Kentucky.

So, you know, it could be 25 degrees this morning.

And then, you know, 80 degrees in the evening.

We'll have students that will come in with inadequate tops or even appropriate shoes.

And they have been showing up, quite frankly, in flip-flops when it is definitely too cold for them to be wearing those.

We have a lot of students when they're new to this country.

They may have arrived, you know, and our community during a warmer month.

Maybe they come from a climate that, you know, generally doesn't have cold winters.

When it's cold outside.

We want to be safe and we want our kids to be healthy.

And so getting them and their proper clothing and making sure those needs are met is is a priority for us.

Coats can be very Will be anticipating probably a higher need this year.

You can very quickly exhausted budgeted by 15 to 20 coats.

We do have students who lost their homes back when the tornado happened.

And, you know, a lot of those resources, yes, we had things.

But those students know kids grow and they change.

And so having those coats from coats for kids and a variety of different sauces is extremely beneficial to the family resource.

The service center.

Having an organization such as Bone, Great, Genuine Club or any other civic organization within your community.

It's a really great partnership to have because it's helping kids is helping the school that's helping the family resource centers.

It's very helpful because then it allows us to take those resources and use them and other places.

So many of our communities are so helpful.

So resourceful and very supportive of this program.

I found that Kentucky's are extremely generous and they care about their folks in their community.

>> Great service.

Indeed.

There are several collection points around town, including the Bowling Green Police Department.

The Junior Woman's club is collecting new and gently used coats.

That will be pretty freshly cleaned before being distributed through the family resource and youth service centers.

♪ Lawrence Welk and a vice president from Kentuckyian the deal that added the western part of the state.

>> Toby Gibbs has all 3 in tonight's look at this week in Kentucky history.

♪ >> Kentucky grew in a big way on October 19th 18, 18 and grew by 2000 square miles to be exact as the United States bought the so-called Jackson purchased from the Chickasaw Nation.

General Andrew Jackson and former Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby represented the United States.

The land is now home to 8 of Kentucky's western most counties.

You know, Richard Nixon, do you know, Richard, Am Johnson the 19th century?

Vice president from Kentucky.

>> Born October, 17th 18, 80 near present-day Louisville Johnson served in the U.S. House and Senate before becoming vice president under Martin Van Buren in 18, 37 historians say he owned a mixed race.

Late name.

Julia became his common law.

Wife.

He later acknowledged having 2 daughters with her Johnson served in the Kentucky House after his vice presidency and died in 18, 50.

A bank robber.

Jesse James was eating at a restaurant in Bardstown on October 18th 18 81 when word arrived that the James Gang that robbed a bank in Kansas and irate Jesse James Karp his name and the date into a window pane to prove he couldn't have robbed a bank that day in Kansas.

Lawrence Welk and his orchestra became the first active reform in Rupp Arena on October 17, 1976 robbery.

His namesake coach, Adolph Robert was among the 20,000 fans who paid $5 6.50, or 7.50, to be there.

The grab was so Big.

Rupp Arena ran out of popcorn.

And that's what was happening this week in Kentucky history.

It begins.

>> Thank you to be Gibbs.

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