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independent news & views about our schools from the kentucky student voice team

Eliza Jane Schaeffer speaking before the Fayette County Board of Education in 2016 to make the case for why students should be added to superintendent screening committees.

Students Are the Soul of Policy

In this opinion piece, a student argues for the importance of student representation on boards of education.

Khoa (Ai) Ta

4.17.2024

Challenging the Chill: Debate Over NTI on Snow Days

Carlie Hall

4.16.2024

We Should Continue Supporting Student Press Freedom

Luisa Sanchez

2.23.2024

Kentucky students need encouragement to get to the polls. SB 80 creates barriers instead.

Isabella Edghill

2.12.2024

Policy and Advocacy

Kentucky students need encouragement to get to the polls. SB 80 creates barriers instead.

In this opinion piece, Isabella Edghill examines barriers created by SB 80, and why Kentucky students need more encouragement to get to the polls, not less.

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Isabella Edghill

Isabella Edghill attends DuPont Manual High School and a member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team.

Carlie Hall

Carlie is a junior at Tate’s Creek High School in Lexington, Kentucky.

Luisa Sanchez

Luisa is a sophomore at Boyle County High School.

Nisha Ajana

Nisha Ajana is a junior at Tates Creek High School.

Willow Bacon

Willow is a 9th grade student at Tate’s Creek High School. You can usually find her drawing, writing, reading, doing color guard, or laying in bed watching Youtube.

Abena Baidoo

Abena Baidoo is a member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team's inaugural Education Journalism Fellowship Cohort and an eighth grade student at Leestown Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky. She is passionate about a lot of things, including art, music and the new Stranger Things season.

Esha Bajwa

Esha Bajwa (she/her) is the Kentucky Student Voice Team's Representative to the Student Action Network for Equity and a member of the board.

Norah Laughter

Norah Laughter is an Associate Editor of The New Edu education journalism news service, a senior advisor to the KSVT, a 2022 graduate of Warren County High School and an undergraduate at Yale University.

Minhal Nazeer

Minhal Nazeer is the co-lead of the Kentucky Student Voice Team's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research and Policy work and a KSVT Board Member.

Ramona Pierce

Ramona Pierce works with storytelling facilitators and student writers to edit submitted pieces for The New Edu newsroon. She also serves as a connection between the overlapping work of KSVT and the Student Action Network for Equity (SANE), where she helps review funding requests from student-led organizations across the country.

Louis Schlosser

Louis Schlosser is a sophomore at Beechwood High School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. When he's not playing tennis or soccer, he enjoys competing on his school's speech and debate team and engaging in outdoor activities.

Anna Sugg

Anna Sugg (she/her) is a correspondent for KSVT's Press Corps and a student at Sacred Heart Academy.

Khoa (Ai) Ta

Khoa Ta is a Sophomore at Owensboro High School in Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County). An engaged student in all topics and fields stretching from STEM to the Humanities. An advocate for all humans to have rights and for youth empowerment!

Aiden Vilo

Aiden manages journalistic work in regards to student storytelling and edits submitted pieces for The New Edu.

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more voices from the front

The New Edu is Kentucky's only statewide, independent, student-run education journalism service. Read more from our archives and from our prototype, The Student Voice Forum.

Learning

“The Most Stressful Time of the Year": How Finals Week Impacts Students’ Mental Health

In this op-ed, a student examines the impact of end-of-term, high-stakes exams.

Luisa Sanchez

1.8.2024

Legislative

The Kentucky Legislature Responds to Education Transportation Issues

Given the statewide nature of education transportation issues, what responsibility does the state government have in implementing a solution?

Isabella Edghill

11.29.2023

Miscellaneous

In the Race For Governor, Education Plans are Front and Center

How do the two gubernatorial candidates plan to improve the education of Kentucky students? More importantly, what do students have to say about this?

11.7.2023