On my favorite day of the month, nobody in the room cares that Iâm the Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent. The 21 first-graders in Mrs. Middlebrooksâ class at Lansdowne Elementary School know Iâm the person who cancels school when it snows. But the reason they get excited to see me is because theyâll each be […]
In the Fayette County Public Schools, families are our partners in all that we do and we are committed to working collaboratively with you to ensure the success of every student. One of our many outreach efforts is an exciting program we call Family University: Guiding Families from Cradle to Career, or âFamUâ for short. […]
A new middle school in southeast Lexington moved one step closer to reality when the Fayette County Board of Education voted unanimously in January to authorize the purchase of roughly 20 acres of land on Squires Road from the Kentucky American Water Company at a cost of $103,000 per acre. The land on Squires Road […]
By: Emmanuel Caulk Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent When children are little, adults often ask them, âWhat do you want to be when you grow up?â Once they hit high school, the question becomes, âWhen will you graduate?â or âWhere do you want to go to college?â And thatâs a problem, because we should never […]
By: Emmanuel Caulk Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent Did you know that 90% of a childâs brain is formed before the age of 5? That means that before children ever enter kindergarten, they have already met their first and most important teacher right in their very own homes. And thatâs why the Fayette County Public […]
