Students with disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic compared to their peers without disabilities. The American Rescue Plan: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund is providing Kentucky Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Early Learning a chance to help those students.
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“There is no greater investment in our state’s future than education, which ensures the next generation is prepared to successfully enter the workforce and contribute to the incredible economic growth and job development Kentucky has worked to achieve. Education helps ensure a quality and prosperous life for all current and future Kentuckians. In what has been – and continues to be – a very tough couple of years for our schools, we are so pleased to see these proposed historic investments in public education."
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Arnav Dharmagadda, a junior at Russell High School (Greenup County) and Lauren Wood, a junior at duPont Manual High School (Jefferson County), were selected from among the state’s top student leaders to be part of the national 104-student delegation of the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP), who also will each receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate study.
The students will be representing Kentucky during the 60th annual USSYP Washington Week, to be held March 6-9.
Chosen as alternates to the 2022 program were Spandana Pavuluri, a junior at duPont Manual High School and Logan Justice, a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Fayette County).
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