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Marcus Lawrence Ward (1812–1884), governor of New Jersey from 1866 to 1869, who signed into law the public and private school corporal punishment ban during his time in office, which is still in effect today. Jordan Riak (1935–2016), drafted the bill which banned corporal punishment from public schools in California in the 1980s
After decades of debate, all local Kentucky school boards have now approved a policy banning corporal punishment. Jennifer Ginn, spokesperson for the Kentucky Department of Education, confirmed ...
In the years since, a number of U.S. states have banned corporal punishment in public schools. [2] The most recent state to outlaw it was Idaho in 2023, [5] and the latest de facto statewide ban was in Kentucky on November 2, 2023, when the last school district in the state that had not yet banned it did so. In 2014, a student was struck in a U ...
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The law was struck down by the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2022 for violating provisions of the Constitution of Kentucky forbidding public funding of private education. [2] The General Assembly passed a separate law in 2022 which would have allowed for the public funding of charter schools and the creation of two pilot schools, which was also ...
OpEd: Take it from a school board member: This amendment essentially cracks open the floodgates, allowing private and for-profit schools to siphon public funds away from public schools.
Kentucky went down its own radical path in 1990 when it decided to equitably and better fund its public schools through a unique formula that no longer depended on local property taxes.
Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), was a court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Kentucky statute was unconstitutional and in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, because it lacked a nonreligious, legislative purpose.