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Breaking News/Digital Editor at the Louisville Courier Journal. Alumna of Poynter-Koch Fellowship '21, Solutions Journalism Network Fellowship '22. In this house, we love cats, facts, the Buckeyes, and rock. (List is not exhaustive.) Send me news tips!!!
Officials are considering both their proposal and another idea from parents to zone children south toward Taylorsville Road instead, but either way, they want to put something in place soon to give parents time to prepare for whatever is approved.
Some parents also claim district leaders haven't communicated as well as they should have been around the plan and that development in the area will require new boundary zones down the line even if this new proposal is implemented.
Under the new proposal, children closer to the Snyder would be zoned to go to Crosby instead. This has angered several parents, some who said they specifically moved to the East End to have their children attend Echo Trail.
The (relatively) tl;dr is officials say Echo Trail is currently overcrowded, as more students were sent there under the new assignment plan, but families who originally had children in private schools also opted to send them there. Meanwhile, Crosby is operating at 75% capacity.
Just published: A new JCPS proposal that would change the attendance zoning for Echo Trail and Crosby middle schools in Louisville's East End has a lot of parents in the area upset, our Krista Johnson and Lillian Metzmeier write: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/e...
A very sad day for our newsroom.
I didn't know Andy long, and there are a lot of things you could say about him, but the biggest one is that he cared about journalism. He was a good guy.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
The CJ's Josh Wood takes a look at happenings in Christian County, where a former Commonwealth's Attorney prosecuted clients he once represented and people have been arrested in cases where no evidence exists, among other serious flaws in the county's justice system.
New investigation just dropped: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/i...
Despite several apparent beliefs to the contrary, I assure you that the CJ staff still works out of Sixth and Broadway, lol.
Louisville still has a little March Madness going on with the KHSAA boys tournament: J'town takes out top-ranked St. X in the first round of the Sweet 16.
www.courier-journal.com/story/sports...
Industry insight of the day: The fastest way for your wire service to end up on an editor's block list is to add them to your distribution list without permission and send out a once-a-day blast of 20+ emails first thing in the morning.
The plan is a result of low enrollment at both schools, officials said, but Young would remain a magnet school if the combination comes to pass. The merger would also allow Hudson Middle School to split into two buildings as it waits for its permanent campus to be completed.
Whitney Young and Engelhard elementary schools in Louisville may merge, according to a new proposal to be presented to the JCPS board, our Krista Johnson writes.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/e...
This will have a direct impact on the Kentucky bourbon industry, as Canada is a strong trading partner for the commonwealth, our Olivia Evans writes.
New from us: The Canadian province of Ontario, the most populous in the country, has issued a stop purchase and removal order for all U.S. beverages in the wake of the new tariffs from the Trump administration.
www.courier-journal.com/story/life/f...
Yeah, I'm over here now, too.