Jailen Leavell, a Pleasure Ridge Park (PRP) High student, is among only 20 students nationwide selected as fellows for PBS NewsHour’s summer Student Reporting Labs Academy in Washington, D.C.

A design created by duPont Manual High student Dacia Berry has been selected for a line of Kentucky Derby Festival merchandise. Dacia’s artwork is featured on shirts and other festival products available at Kroger, Wal-Mart, and Taste of Kentucky locations as well as the Kentucky Derby Festival website.

JCPS has developed a completely new website. Pages on the old site have been updated and migrated into a new system—and many new pages have been created. In addition, there's an entirely new menu structure and a new "look and feel" that help accomplish several goals: