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Hitting the ground running: Jason Glass, Kentucky's new Commissioner of Education steps into a leadership role freighted with concerns about the future of public education under pandemic conditions. | School in a time of pandemic: our weekly series of interviews with teachers in the public schools of Eastern Kentucky. Cynthia Resor talks with Rockcastle County H.S. Social Studies teacher Holly Robinson. | How the the 19th Amendment has reverberated over a century. EKU Professor of History Jackie Kay with UK historian Melanie Goan | ServeKentucky's Joe Bringardner on fresh funding for  AmeriCorps public service jobs.

Contact: Tom Martin at es@eku.edu or leave voicemail at 859-622-9358

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