Colleges Accommodate Non-Traditional Students
The college classroom isn’t limited to recent high school graduates. Plenty of adults are finding the drive to return to school. With a full-time work schedule and families at home, a flexible schedule is important in working toward a degree. Several area universities offer fast-track programs that meet at more convenient times for adults.
Busy Mom Earns MBA at Midway
Myndall Coffman of Versailles rattles off the list of duties typical for a busy working mother of two in our warp-speed culture:
Mom. Wife. Full-time employee at Central Baptist Hospital, not to mention her involvement with her son’s youth baseball team and her daughter’s gymnastics and Brownie Scout troop.
‘The Katie Show’ Rocks On
Pity the classmates of Katie Workman when she attended Southern Middle School.
Precocious Star Started at Age 6
No wonder it seems that high school golfer Fred Allen Meyer was born with a golf club in his hands. He was practically born on a golf course.
Private School Open Houses
Private School Open House Listings
Runner Wins Two State Titles Before 9th Grade
Few athletes can match the startling debut of Maddox Patterson, a freshman at Sayre School who burst out of the starting gate as an unknown to become one of the state’s best cross-country runners.
For First Time, Sayre Offers Afterschool Sports Camps
Sayre School, for the first time in its long history, has invited the public to participate in a six-week, multi-sport series of camps this fall.
The camps are open to rising first- through fifth-graders.
Special Olympics Program for Young Athletes Comes to Play Works in Lexington
A program for unique children has come to Lexington, and it represents one of the best deals in town.
The Special Olympics Young Athletes Program, an international project for children 2 to 7 years old with intellectual disabilities, makes its local debut this month at Play Works, a pediatric enrichment center on Custer Drive.
After School Activies – Learning Doesn’t Have to Stop When School Bell Rings
When the bell rings at the end of the school day, children and teens need a safe and nurturing place to go when their parents are still at work or away from home.
According to the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit public awareness advocacy organization, 15.1 million children nationwide and 28% of children in Kentucky are left unsupervised after 3 p.m., responsible for taking care of themselves.
Born to Play Volleyball
Kate Stromberg wasn’t born on a volleyball court – it just seems that way.
3 Study Tips for a Good School Year
How can parents help their kids get off on the right foot? Try these three simple tips.
Debut Year a Big Success for Learning Center at TLS
The debut year for the Learning Center at The Lexington School – a school within a school for children with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia – exceeded all expectations, measured by raw data and smiling children.
FCPS: Back to School Basics
Registration for students entering Fayette County Public Schools for the first time is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays from July 25 through Aug. 11 (the first day of school).
Helping Your Child Adjust to A New School
The most difficult back-to-school times for both parents and kids are those transition years when students are changing schools.
Use these tips to help ease the stress for students and parents.
Double Take: Like Father, Like Son
Andrew Herring School: Henry Clay High Grade: 12th • Sport: Tennis Academics: Andrew has a 4.12 weighted GPA , has taken nine AP classes and scored 29 on the ACT. Parents: Christy & John No need for Henry Clay High’s Andrew Herring to fret over a Father’s Day gift this month – his dad feels […]