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Trauma, poverty, COVID-19 causing high rates of chronic absenteeism in Kentucky
The number of Kentucky youth who are chronically absent from school skyrocketed during the 2022-2023 school year. The reasons for chronic absenteeism are interconnected and complicated — and the...
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Multiplying trauma: Kentucky set to add more kids to its troubled juvenile jails
A state law taking effect next month will require more kids charged with violent offenses to be held in Kentucky’s troubled juvenile jails — at a time when all...
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Juvenile justice: ‘From nothing to something and then right back to nothing’
The mood was celebratory as Kentucky and federal officials crowded into the Capitol Rotunda on a cold January day in 2001 to announce the end of five years of...