Time now to check in on some major political developments so far this week with our good friend Roland Martin, who is a senior editor with NPR State's team.

Good to see your island.

Good to see you, Renee.

Some interesting developments concerning the constitutional amendment that will be on the November ballot here in Kentucky concerning school choice.

We'll let you define how this all started.

But we know that the Pulaski County School system has been posting information on its website and on social media, discouraging support for that amendment.

And some elected officials, particularly Republicans, are crying foul.

Give us the backstory and where we are now.

Yeah, so this is the amendment that's going to be on the ballot this November that would allow lawmakers to spend state tax money for nonpublic education or private education, and also charter schools, which is, you know, not traditional public education.

Charter schools, proponents will call it those that's currently not allowed.

There's a provision in the state constitution that prevents public dollars from being spent on nonpublic education or actually county schools on their Facebook page had put up a couple, you know, really essentially political advertisements encouraging folks to not to vote against amendment to a lot of public school advocates are worried about how this how this amendment would would lead to less money going towards public education.

You know, ultimately, if there's fewer kids in seats in in your traditional public schools and there, you know, say taking vouchers are going to the private school vouchers are going to the charter schools, and there could be fewer seats in public schools and those kids will be going somewhere else that could lead to funding drop off for some of these places.

Folks in rural parts of the state are especially worried about this because school districts are smaller.

Also, school districts are huge employers within a lot of these rural counties.

It's something I've heard time and time again over the past couple of years where, you know, Republicans in rural parts of the state will say, well, you know, if this works for you in more urban parts of Kentucky, as long as you don't it doesn't come here, then we're fine with it.

And I've even heard just, you know, the quote from fancy farmer lawmakers were saying, you know, at least, you know, we're not actually too worried about it, about this coming here.

So it's, you know, vote forage.

But it's but don't worry about it happening here.

That's the police.

Pulaski County schools here is taking the position that, you know, hey, this this could still affect us.

And they worried about it.

Russell Coleman, the state's attorney general, came out and said that that ran afoul of state law and he kind of court schools has actually since taken down those messages.

But, you know, given a little jab on the way out, saying that, you know, this is partizan politics that at its core.

And so they're not happy with having having to do that.

But they they still took down the ads.

Yeah.

Another story involving Kentucky's attorney general, Russell Coleman, concerning the state's largest substance abuse provider, ARC or addiction recovery care.

We've learned that this high profile treatment center, as we've discussed before, is under FBI investigation for potential health care fraud.

What is the connection to Attorney General Russell Coleman and another top deputy in his office?

Yeah, so Russell Coleman and and instability deputy attorney general recused themselves from anything related to ARC.

There were some memos at the beginning of the Coleman administration that they had signed saying that they would not pursue any you know, they would not be involved in any cases involving, you know, their former employer, the law firm did financial and differential had represented arc addiction recovery centers in a matter relating to a lawsuit from an employee who said that, you know, it was unfair payments taking place there.

So now, you know, shortly before this FBI investigation came out, records show that the attorney general and his deputy had taken steps to ensure that that would not take place, that they would not be involved in any of this.

It's a you know, this is a the investigation is ongoing here still that the FBI is investigation is into whether or not HRC had misused Medicaid funding.

The head of of ask the CEO, Tim Robinson, is very close to both Russell Coleman and his deputy.

And that's you know, that's something that, you know is interesting especially and kind of goes back to them recusing themselves as these are people who had been kind of in business together or had professional relationships together ahead of the administration.

And Robinson had actually held had held fundraisers for both Coleman and for Democratic Governor Andy Beshear as well.

He was, you know, a bipartisan political funder.

So it's interesting news here, and it's more to watch to see if there is, you know, what what we're going to find out from about HRC and whether or not they misused Medicaid funds or if the FBI determines that.

Yeah.

And finally, the story about Republican former Republican Governor Matt Bevin, his son, who had been at a reformatory or a now closed, troubled teens facility in Jamaica, there has been some new understanding about that.

This young man had been at the center in December and had left and has been back in the U.S. for about 2 to 3 months before the facility closed.

Tell us what what do we know about this and why it's so troubling?

Yeah, there's still a lot to this story that we just don't know what led to this kid leaving the bedroom household and when exactly that took place.

The Courier Journal reported that that who you know, they used an alias in the reporting of this.

Noah.

You know, when he had come back to the United States and they say that taking place in about Maine or something is sort of incredibly troubling story of this.

You know, teens Academy, it's called Atlantis Leadership Academy in Jamaica.

And it had been shut down earlier this year and under because of allegations of abuse of conditions for kids in its care.

This really troubling story from the London Times that was reported out earlier this month.

Mark Evans, one of Gavin's adopted children, had ended up in this place.

We we still don't we still haven't heard from the former governor or or Glenn about him, his wife.

They are going through divorce proceedings right now about what took place here.

But the latest is that we know that that he's been placed outside of Kentucky in a placement that he chose and wanted to be in.

And that's for an advocate who's been, you know, working on this case.

Yeah.

Well, a lot to still learn about that is troubling case as as the days unfold.

And we thank you, Raelyn, for helping us understand it all.

We appreciate you.

Thanks, Renee.