Well, some big news here in Louisville.

Yum brands wants to donate its headquarters to Jefferson County Public Schools.

Superintendent Marty Polio says he will recommend to the school board that it move the district's central office to the well known location.

The campus includes the so-called white House, as well as a five story office building.

Back in February, yum!

Brands announced it was moving its KFC corporate offices to Plano, Texas.

Superintendent polio says the donation will allow the district to consolidate several district buildings into one.

He estimated the gift is worth more than $40 million.

Instead of us spending 20 to $40 million on a new central office facility, we are now able to get this facility, donated to us and still be on plan to sell our, central office facilities of Van Hoose lamb and C.B.

young and consolidate our central office administration under one building.

And I'll say this again, this donation from from yum!

Brands is the equivalent of a brand new elementary school in JC that we will be able to build as a result of this.

And that is just absolutely amazing.

And that generation, that generous gift, will impact generations of young people here in this community.

To do that.

Thank you.

The donation still needs to be approved by the school board, which is scheduled to meet this evening.

Doctor polio said it was important for him to find a new space for central office before he leaves his post.

He starts his new job as president of Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana July 1st.

We asked what he thinks the biggest challenge will be for his successor.

Well, he's taking over a wonderful district that is filled with wonderful educators and leaders throughout this district.

So I think, that's amazing.

Families and kids, won't go into any school building in this district without being absolutely inspired and motivated by what you see.

I'm one of the few who's been in all 155 schools, many times over the past eight years, and I just can't speak enough to how great our school system is.

But clearly, in any district now in education, there's major challenges.

And they will continue to be major challenges.

And so, it's hard to even know in today's education space what the next challenges challenge is going to be.

If I stood up here in 2018 or 19, I would have never had the ability to verbalize that we were about to hit a pandemic and, possibly go into virtual school.

But that happened.

And so I'm sure there's going to be challenges.

My goal was to try to, get as many real difficult decisions made prior to the new superintendent stepping in so that there would be some time before having to make those difficult decisions.

And one of those was a central office facility.

So, I can't it's hard to speak exactly what that would be.

I mean, I think the biggest challenge to any education system or district right now and in the future is going to be staffing, so staffing shortages will remain a major challenge.

And unfortunately, I even think probably will grow in the next decade just because the amount of educators who are retiring versus those that are coming into the field, I think will continue to be the biggest challenge for any educational leader.

Brian Yearwood has been named the next superintendent for JCPs.

The Board of Education approved his four year contract last month.

He takes over the state's largest public school district one week from today.