♪ The parole board makes its decision about Michael Carr.

Neal, will it be life in prison or early parole?

And FEMA makes its decision about whether to give Kentucky flood victims more time to ask for release.

>> Teachers can manually accelerate their students.

We can do it.

Celebration to number 4.

That has to be a partnership where students have a primary ball.

>> And what schools need to do to make up for lost time after the pandemic.

>> Production of Kentucky Edition is made possible in part by the KTM down that for Kentucky Productions.

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

♪ ♪ Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION for this Monday, September.

The 26th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Monday night with OSS.

>> It will be life in prison for Michael Carr, Neil.

The man who shot and killed 3 students and wounded 5 others.

>> At Heath High School in Paducah and 1997, this morning, the Kentucky Parole Board turned down car Neal's request for parole and he will not have another opportunity to ask for it, meaning he will be in prison for life.

Carneal was 14 at the time of the shootings.

He's 39 now he told board members last week he still hears voices, but he said with therapy and medication he can control his behavior.

The board voted 7 to 0.

This morning against parole.

>> After deliberating Mister Cornell.

Due to the seriousness of your crime.

You're proud of all the weapon.

And allies taken in the seriousness.

it is the decision of the parole board today to allow you to serve out the remainder of your sentence.

>> The Kentucky Parole Board released a statement about the decision.

Here is part of it.

Quote, the Kentucky Parole Board's decision was made in compliance with Kentucky law and in an effort to mandate health, delicate balance between public safety victim rights, reintegration of the offender and recidivism.

Here's some important flood news.

FEMA has extended the deadline for Kentuckians and 13 counties to apply for individual assistance.

>> The deadline was this week, but Governor Andy Beshear and Kentucky's entire congressional delegation.

As for the deadline to be extended today, Governor Beshear announced it has been extended to October 28th.

The devastation left by the floods made a significant impact on when kids return back to school, delaying start times and even shifting some students to other schools that were spared the flood waters wrath.

Today marks the 23rd Day of School for kids in Floyd County.

I talked with Superintendent Anna Shepherd on Friday about how the district is coping and how educators there are tending to more than just textbook teaching.

>> have had one of the best starts and for after pushing school back for 2 weeks due to the devastating clients here, I really feel like and we have had one of our very best starts to school.

And for we're fortunate and we did not have any schools or are best late damage.

Didn't lose any lives here in Floyd County.

And we did have one huge area and the county did the study by Fleming we have still 30 by students at 17 families and 9 staff who are still displaced by the flooding.

But we just, you know, very fortunate that we heavy schools damaged.

Yeah.

>> It's so hard to even imagine, even if you didn't suffer a lot of damage.

Just the experience and the trauma, particularly of kids, just trying to make sense of it all who maybe lost relatives in other counties.

So can you talk to a Superintendent, Shepard about how you're dealing with kids beyond just their educational experience, but maybe to address some of the emotional trauma that they've endured since the late July floods.

>> Yes, we are.

you know, fortunate that we councilors in each of our schools we have, you know, not a comprehensive care, a school-based their best in our schools and the counselors and the Family Resource Center directors were on the ground immediately assess the needs of our families.

And we have also last year and so thankful that this entire district we starting the journey and putting an intentional focus on the whole child and not just our academic needs that their social and emotional well-being as well and all at our district to every employee in this participating last year in 5 as social emotional learning in trauma informed of professional learning sessions with Doctor Sweeney and we committed this year to 4 sessions with the UK has sent her on trauma and children and we have had to do that is for sessions at this point that we you know, with having counselors in the school counselors on the ground immediately to travel to the state park where we had families to our community center here.

That was housing families just to spice.

You know, the very next day or so after the flooding that has helped us tremendously as well as just this entire team.

I'm here in Floyd County as all of our staff that have assisted families and heading the students back in school.

And yes, that Friday was the 22nd day.

And we just feel like, you know, we need to school back take care of those basic needs are stunned as they start families that getting, you know, having the kids back in school.

We are our health offices are where the counselors are with the family resource Centers R where teachers and all of our staff to let them are.

We can best serve the students by having them back in our schools.

Later tonight on Kentucky tonight, you'll hear more from Anna Shepherd, other Eastern Kentucky school superintendents.

>> And state Education Commissioner Jason Glass about how schools there in eastern Kentucky are handling in-person instruction and addressing students.

Emotional needs as well.

That's tonight at 8 Eastern 7 central right here on KET.

The Kentucky basketball team's annual blue White scrimmage will not be at Rupp Arena in Lexington.

UK says it will be at Appalachian Wireless Arena and Pike full to benefit the victims of the July floods.

The scrimmage is October 22nd.

8 days after big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena.

The players will also take part in a community service activity to benefit the relief effort.

Last Friday, the Kentucky Department of Education's principal advisory Council heard guidance on strategies to accelerate student learning the guidance comes in response to on finish learning experience by students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's going to take 3 to 5 years of the intentional support.

>> To really address any unfinished learning due to the pandemic.

First deputy in terms of accelerating student learning is for schools to create intentional action plan.

And when creating that local plan, it is important to ensure that the focus is on providing students that just in time supports around the building blocks that are necessary for them to successfully engage with the great double standards and quality of vanity classroom instruction.

Students receive obviously has a significant impact on overall issue that.

>> We will close learning gaps of students are not consistently present in classrooms and given access to quality standards.

Align grade level instruction.

>> Even when students have access to quality standards, align, great local instruction.

We all know that some students are still going to need more time and support to reach the grade level expectations.

High intensity tearing provide students with individualized tutoring sessions 3 or more times a week and research shows that students who participate in high intensity to during game one to 2 additional I years of learning in math in one year's time across grades 3 through 12 when it comes to reading and writing.

When you look at the research high intensity to during is most impactful with students in grades K through to the other supplemental approach, his vacation academies.

And this provides students with 25 hours targeted instruction in a single subject during the weeklong vacation break.

So it could be fall break a week of winter break.

Spring break and research shows that students who participate in these vacation academies can getting up to 3 additional months of learning in that one week's time in the targeted subject area.

>> It really is all about empowering students to answer 3 critical questions about their learning.

One of my learning, why am I learning and making the case for his wife is worth the time and effort and then how I know that I have learned teachers can manually accelerate their students.

We can do it.

Celebration to number 4.

That has to be a partnership where students have a primary ball and students can assume a primary role in a burning if they're not dealt in court.

>> Really gaining strength in tier one.

There are 3 critical questions that we need to ask ourselves.

Is our curriculum tightly aligned to the Kentucky academic standards?

Are we using the formative assessment process to monitor and unjust instruction student learning on a daily bases?

And are we using evidence-based instructional practices in our instruction to really help students reach the grade level expectations?

>> The Kentucky Department of Education says that besides pandemic, learning loss, students may also lose up to 3 months of literacy and numeracy skills during summer break.

When they are practicing what they learned during the school year.

Kentucky voters can now request an absentee ballot by mail for the November 8th election.

The portal opens Saturday.

It will close just before midnight on October.

25th, not everyone is eligible for an absentee ballot.

A voter has to have a reason such as age, disability, illness, military service or being out of your home county during polling hours.

We spent more than 2 years dealing with COVID and now monkeypox.

And of course, there's always talk about the flu this time of year.

But do you know about RSV, which is short for respiratory us and show a virus Norton Children's Hospital says it's treating twice as many patients as it normally does.

Doctor Scott Bickal talks about RSV as it seems to be spiking at an unexpected time.

>> So the bulk children with RSV are mostly underage We do see us does smaller number of children asthma who are older in in those younger age range is getting you might not.

They may not our history who has not wheezing or things like that.

They can start out with the common cold symptoms to develop into something bronchiolitis we get the really small airways in flames and they build a new cause and that leads to difficulty Sometimes it can be mild.

And I just need to be followed by the pediatrician.

But sometimes it can be more significantly need to drops in oxygen levels the need for the care, you know, pre We tended to see spikes in this area in the December early January range.

Typically during 2020, we saw almost no RSV is school is out.

People wearing masks and so on.

And last summer we saw a major spike which is really unusual to see that time of the year some of those precautions kind of yeah, it's interesting.

And perhaps we're shifting more towards the winter.

If you look at the spikes were kind of right between the pre and post COVID spikes that we've seen in.

So.

It's not quite clear why this moment it's occurring, but we just got back into school within the past month.

Kids are in day care, you know.

And certainly all that contact does tend to lead toward spikes in viral illnesses.

Yeah, I think with ours be is that you don't tend to generate great long-term immunity to it.

So it's certainly possible to get infected and then re infected in the A few weeks might be a little bit soon, but I'm certainly to get RSV, you know, season over season not unheard of by any stretch.

>> And the U.S. RSV sends about 50,000 children under the age of 5 to hospitals each year.

So here's some tips for you.

KET children.

Well hydrated, make sure they wash their hands often and KET them home from school if they become sick.

State Senator C B Embry is resigning officially as a member of the Kentucky state Senate for health reasons.

Senator Embry of Morgantown announced his plans to retire during the 2022 regular General Assembly session because of his long fight with cancer.

And Bree was elected to the Kentucky House in 2020 20.

0, 2, And then to the Kentucky Senate in 2014 Senate President Robert Stivers says, quote, C B Embry is the epitome of a committed public servant who travel back and forth to Frankfort, scheduling his treatments around floor and committee activity.

It has been an honor to serve in the Senate with such a dedicated person, unquote.

A park in Muhlenberg County will be renamed in honor of singer songwriter John Prine who died in 2020 Prine wrote a song called Paradise for his father.

It was about the small town of Paradise on the grain banks of the Green River after Prine died, fans started visiting Rochester which is mentioned in the song a park at the dam will be renamed John Prine from Oriole Park and the ceremony on October.

1st.

♪ At a time when American politics sings more strident and divisive.

One Lexington Base group with national reach is working with all 3 branches of government to bring about the exchange of ideas to help state officials to shape public policy.

The Council of State governments founded in 1933.

Is a nonpartisan organization that tries to bring opposing sides together to build consensus on the way the public policy issues of our time last Sunday on connections.

I sat down with executive director and CEO David Atkins, a former 12 year.

Kansas lawmaker to discuss how they bridge partisan gaps on important issues.

>> I went into politics with very sort of the pragmatism of of a lawyer thinking that my opponents in politics were never going to be my enemy.

What I wanted to do with fight it out on the floor of the House or the Senate.

And when that discussion was over, you went and had lunch and you you tried to work with people across the aisle tried to build coalitions in 1996.

Us as a member of the House, for example, I spearheaded a juvenile justice reform effort that but for maybe 2 people, it had unanimous approval, a major overhaul of juvenile justice and and that's a matter of building developing some expertise being seen by your colleagues is as some and some respect as a result over time at the end of my 12 years, I felt like there had been a shift that.

For the positions you held in a public policy issue.

It was no longer to be just a disagreement.

It tended to be more of it.

You are painted is good or evil than that.

Your opponents were your enemies.

And that's why when I had the opportunity to to take this job at the Council of State governments really given the opportunity to do the things I loved about the legislature, which was I'm really dig deep into public policy and try to solve problems without all of those Burton's.

Now, KET in mind, I served before there was social media ran.

And when I look at the sacrifices people who are serving today have to make.

You know, just the vitriol that they are forced to deal with through social media and and the way that the public can respond to certain public actions.

It's it's incredible that we still have great people that want to also self-inflicted, right?

In some ways.

Yes, and it tends to create a cycle that people who are drawn to >> that kind of attention and notoriety seek out office to perpetuate sort of that that siren song that that doesn't move anything forward, but certainly Creech notoriety and some people confuse unfortunately, their ambitions instead of working to serve the common they work to serve their tribe or or the efforts of polarization.

A 10 to, you know, just create that cycle.

That's self-perpetuating Ryan, it's it's a.

It's pretty corrosive to this idea that you could advance the common good.

>> The Council of State governments has a concentrated focus on criminal justice reform.

You can learn more about that by watching the full interview with David Atkins Online and KET, he dot org, slash connections.

For the first time ever.

Kentucky will have a black woman serving as a commonwealth's attorney Governor Beshear announced today he is appointing Kimberly Baird has the commonwealth's attorney for the 22nd Judicial District effective October.

1st Baird will replace luana red corn who is retiring.

Barrett is a Lexington native, a graduate of Lafayette High School and the UK College of Law.

She's been read Cornes first assistant since 2016.

♪ Now back to some good news on the education front.

A Kentuckian is one of 20 educators recognized by PBS for being a change maker in the classroom.

Chris Tyson Renshaw is a member of this year's PBS digital innovator All-Star program.

These All-Stars are doing extraordinary work to support student learning by integrating media and digital technology in the classroom.

Renshaw is a digital learning coach with the Christian County Technology Department in Hopkinsville nominated for this award by KET.

She says the ultimate recognition comes from her students.

It's a very humbling honor.

>> To be recognized to be recognized by partner to be recognized that the school system.

But at the end of the day, the recognition comes from the students.

There's been so many over the years that you teach that you see in the community that bring up things that they remember and that this award opened up those conversations.

People reached out this summer when the announcement was made regarding, you know, hey, I have this memory with you in that setting.

And it's when those conversations happen that it was all about the relationships.

And so really the champion in this, the students whose paths that I have crossed over the years because they're the ones that are out there changing the world and will continue to change the world.

>> And bring that knowledge and information back to make our community a stronger place or whatever community they land in.

But it is heartwarming.

And Hart filling to have those conversations and whether those conversations are with the student with the parent with a grandparent to have those memories shared and sometimes you're like.

You're right.

We did that.

But you it's not something that stuck with you.

But it was important to them that day and was life altering.

And that's when at the end of the day, you know that it's been an incredible run, an incredible opportunity.

Yes, that you've been given.

To change what is going on around you?

In partnership with KET Renshaw will spend this school year deepening engagement among students, families, educators, schools and K E T. Congratulations to her.

♪ >> We look back at the career of a Kentucky born actor with a distinctive booming voice and find out why Kentucky's constitution had to be changed.

Toby Gibbs tells us why this look at this week in Kentucky history.

>> Kentucky adopted the state's current constitution on September.

28 18 91.

It's the state's 4th constitution after the first one in 17.

92 and revise constitutions in 17, 99 18 15.

There was a need for a new one after the Civil war because the existing Kentucky Constitution protected slavery and had to be changed to match anti slavery, amendments in the U.S. Constitution.

>> John, see Breckenridge, Kentucky native and former vice president of the United States like Kentucky on October.

Second, 18, 61 Breckenridge sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War and was about to be arrested by union troops.

He was eventually commission to Brigadier General in the Confederate Army.

>> Gina Haspel, the first woman to lead the CIA was born October.

First 1956.

In Ashland.

She went to the University of Kentucky for 3 years.

Switch to the University of Louisville and joined the CIA in 1985.

She moved up the ranks and became CIA director in 2018 and left the job in 2021.

You might know actor William Conrad from the 1970's Private Eye series can and you might not know he was from Kentucky.

Conrad was born September 27th 1920, in Louisville.

His real name was John William.

Can.

He was the voice of Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke on radio before it became a TV show.

>> I'm not.

I love the United States marshal.

>> We also narrated Rocky and Bullwinkle.

William Conrad died in 1994.

>> And those are some of the big events this week in Kentucky history.

Thank youto be.

>> Young man are following in Muhammad Ali's footsteps by stepping into the boxing ring in Louisville.

We have more of that and this look and Kentucky life.

>> Louisville, select boxing is a youth boxing program.

For youth development.

I like to work with young Only male athletes at this time.

Through their formidable years.

You know, really ages 12 to 16 is I really like to work with athletes.

It's not.

Geared towards youth development.

So you mean typically associate boxing refer tight personalities in in kids started a lot of kids that may be like to fight or get in trouble at school.

Boxing teaches young people to be accountable.

Boxing to have a series of about 15 exercises and you routinely do those exercises.

So what you see on TV that's prize fighting.

And that's the highest level box.

But really boxing is jumping rope.

Shadow boxing, sit ups.

hitting the heavy bag lightly, sparring.

It's not a fighting that you see sometimes on TV where knockouts and that type that.

That's that's for entertainment.

First boxing is really just learning all those exercise.

What started it once you string budget in my basement.

The program has grown when to roughly about youth athletes.

Part of the program is a low cost.

If any cost.

Also a lot of times I'll waive any fees, but this is just a huge base boxing program.

teaches kids life skills.

This is like flying when I was young.

I can show right, we've seen and this is my home, I say, and want to that in my life.

That's a live reading.

My brother got me into it.

A new CNN show.

So maybe get in the blogs.

And since then, I've been told to we continue to stay with it.

I can make my life better.

When you see these guys get good at boxing.

The lore of the streets is not there anymore.

You always say like new miracles happen.

But through his goal and his vision of Nicholas and his brother, Sean.

>> These kids have transformed everybody make mistakes.

Don't let nothing hold you back.

Well, we've changed a good decisions.

Everything that's hurting Senator and make it positive and happy.

But it make you feel better or her agenda.

The wrong stuff.

We still have other people like that and the bucket to the way that they do want to I see the act up way back and good to to to that that path.

Not that long.

Fast.

People want to grown people long.

Oh, no.

And there.

It's nobody's fault.

>> Here's to making some good chance.

An and out of the rink tomorrow on Kentucky EDITION will tell you about military missions, a group that sends care packages to American troops stationed around the world.

We'll talk to one volunteer who says it's the least he can do.

>> If if I were still young enough.

To be standing beside you, I'd be standing beside you, but because I can't I'm standing behind you.

>> We'll tell you more about what this organization does and how you can get involved.

That's tomorrow night on Kentucky edition at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central where we inform connect and inspire.

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There.

Until I see you again.

Take really good care and have a wonderful night.

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