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Appalachian university would have ‘limited impact,’ study saysGovernor still focuses on need to increase education

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the Frankfort christian academy fifth-graders watch as state journal reporter lauren Hallow works at her desk.

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tFca fifth-graders anna jones, Bailee Dowler, jonah adams and Kate Wright look at an adver-tisement.

Ruth Fitz-Gerald’s fifth-grade class from The Frankfort Christian Academy took a tour of The

State Journal Thursday to see how a newspaper is made. Publisher Ann Maenza gave the students step-by-step instruction on how an issue of The

State Journal is made and introduced the kids to the advertising, composing, printing, reporting

and photography departments.

Behind the scenes

Capital Avenue closed for race Saturday

Capital Avenue between West Main and Todd streets will be closed from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday for the Good Shepherd 3K Run.

Join Spring Clean Week efforts

Sunday through March 24 is Adopt-a-Highway Spring Clean Week. Those wishing to participate must notify the state maintenance facility in their county prior to their clean-up date so that trash bags and safety vests can be set aside. For more informa-tion, contact Miranda Thack-er at miranda.thacker@ky.gov or 564-3419.

Got a favorite teacher?

Nominations for the 2013 Kentucky Teacher Awards have opened. Winners will receive cash prizes with a grand prize of $10,000 going to the teacher chosen as Ken-tucky Teacher of the Year.

The website for nomina-tions is http://kentuckytoy.com, and the deadline is May 15.

Eligible teachers must be full-time with at least three years of experience. Anyone can nominate a teacher.

Awards will be announced in September.

staff and wire report

A former senior staffer to President Bill Clinton has been tapped as the new secretary for the Cabinet of Health and Family Services in Kentucky.

G o v . S t e v e B e s h e a r named Au-drey Tayse Haynes Thursday to take over the troubled cabinet starting April 16. She replaces former Secretary Janie Miller, who resigned last month.

“Audrey brings a dynamic mix of large-scale organiza-tion management, policy de-velopment and government experience to this position, and I’m very pleased that she is bringing those talents back to us in Kentucky,” Bes-hear said in a statement. “… Audrey has the right skills and resources to make sure our citizens continue to get the care and services they need.”

Haynes served as direc-tor of the White House Of-fice for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach under Clinton and as chief of staff to Tipper Gore during the second Clin-ton-Gore administration.

Most recently, she worked as senior vice president and

chief government affairs of-ficer with YMCA of the USA, where she implemented a number of health initiatives, according to a release from Beshear’s office.

Haynes will take over a cabinet criticized for how it has handled child death cas-es and records and which has been sued by newspapers for withholding records in cases that Franklin County Circuit Judge Philip Shepherd ruled should be made public.

The cabinet has also moved 560,000 Medicaid re-cipients to a managed care program overseen by three providers in recent months, the release says.

“I am excited to be back in Kentucky full time, and I am honored to be working in this Cabinet,” Haynes, who holds a master’s degree in so-cial work from the University of Kentucky, said in a state-ment. “CHFS impacts every single Kentuckian – whether through birth certificates, health departments, restau-rant inspections or services to the elderly.

“I feel that I am return-ing to my roots of social work and mental health services, and I’m pleased to be part of a Cabinet that provides such critical services to Kentuck-ians.”

Acting Secretary Eric Friedlander will stay with the cabinet as deputy secre-tary, the release says.

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By ROGER ALFORDassociated press

A new public university in Kentucky’s Appalachian region would have “limited impact” on increasing the number of mountain resi-dents with college degrees, a state consultant reported Thursday.

The Colorado-based National Center for High-er Education Manage-ment Systems included the finding in a 67-page report summing up a study com-missioned by Gov. Steve Beshear.

The University of Pikev-ille, a small private college, sought legislative approval to become a publicly fund-ed school to increase edu-cational levels in the Ap-palachian region. Wide-spread opposition led to that proposal being with-drawn from consideration in the current legislative session and replaced with a proposal to provide schol-arships for mountain stu-dents to existing colleges.

Critics feared funding another public university would weaken the state’s existing universities. The consultant concurred, say-ing such a move could have “a significant negative fi-

nancial impact” on other universities.

“I have just received the report and am reviewing it closely,” Beshear said in a statement Thursday. “How-ever, this report clearly confirms that there are un-met educational needs in southeastern Kentucky.”

The governor said the recommendations “ap-pear to support” efforts to increase the number of mountain residents with bachelor’s degrees.

“I will work with the General Assembly, the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Associ-ation of Independent Ken-tucky Colleges and Univer-sities to meet those needs,” he said.

Rep. Leslie Combs, D-Pikeville, replaced her pro-posal to use a tax on coal mined in the region to turn the University of Pikeville into a public school with a plan to provide grants of up to $6,000 a year to stu-dents attending a handful of private colleges in the mountain region.

The goal is to make the impoverished mountain region more appealing to businesses looking to ex-pand or relocate.

Former Gov. Paul Pat-ton, now president of the University of Pikeville, said raising educational levels is key to improving the econ-omy in one of the poorest regions in the nation.

Some critics had com-plained that the economic recession has pinched the state’s existing universi-ties and that Kentucky can little afford a ninth four-year campus. Proponents argued that using funding from a pool of cash avail-able only for coalfield proj-ects would not infringe on the existing universities.

The consultant found that the region “has much lower education attain-ment rates than the state as a whole.” Nearly 30 percent of Kentucky’s residents be-tween the ages of 25 and 64 have college degrees, com-pared to only 18 percent in the 12-county region served by the University of Pikeville.

One way to increase the number of college gradu-ates, the consultant said, is for Morehead State Univer-sity and Eastern Kentucky University to expand their off-campus offerings in Appalachia.

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u.S. Marshals task force arrest 59, a record high

(AP) – The U.S. Marshals fugitive task force based in Louisville arrested 59 people in February – a number offi-cials call a record high.

U.S. Marshal Jim Clark says in a statement that the charges facing the fugitives include homicide, sexual as-sault, failure to register as a sex offender, escape, bur-glary and dangerous drugs.

Clark and Chief Deputy Marshal Brian Parrish say the arrests reinforce the Mar-shals cooperation and team-work with local partners in-cluding Louisville Metro po-lice Department, the Jeffer-son County Sheriff’s office and Kentucky state proba-tion and parole.

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Jail employee gets $60K in lawsuit

(AP) – A Fayette County Detention Center employee has been awarded $60,000 in a lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed her to the point that it interfered with her work.

A jury on Thursday also found that Cpl. Charlotte Trotter couldn’t prove that Maj. Michael Korb retaliat-ed against her or that Korb touched her breast without consent in October 2009.

Trotter told the Lexington Herald-Leader she was hap-py someone listened to her.