Education

The University of the Cumberlands conferred five advanced degrees in education to five local students last month.

Tracy Hall received a Masters of Arts in Education (MAE) degree in Read Write Specialist P to 12. Leslie Hulsey received a MAE in Teacher as Leader.

Rebecca Moreland, Heather Snodgrass and Logan Young all received MAE’s in School Guidance Counselor.

Katherine Cox, a daughter of Roger T. and Kay Cox, has been selected to attend the 2015 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program, according to a news release.

Cox will attend classes at Murray State University for five weeks this summer, and will be a senior at Anderson County High School.

During a recent meeting of the Anderson County Board of Education, food service personnel expressed concerns about what they deemed “pay inequality” among staff.
A small group of food service staff members claimed that staff who worked at the high school were paid 10 percent more than their counterparts at the middle school. The board approved a new food service salary schedule, it claims should rectify any payment inequalities among food service personnel.

means no school, no early mornings and no homework. But for others it may also mean no meals.
According to the Kentucky Association of Food Banks, one in five children struggle with hunger in Kentucky. The School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs usually help to alleviate the problem of food availability to children who do not have access to adequate nutrition, but during summer months a child’s access to healthy meals drops dramatically.