MARCH 2025

Louisville Metro

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Louisville Economic Development Alliance announces new leader.

At a Friday board meeting, the Louisville Economic Development Alliance (LEDA) named Trevor Pawl as its new CEO... Pawl was the state of Michigan's first chief mobility officer, focusing on the future of transportation in the state. During his tenure, Michigan stitched together 89 public-private partnerships and attracted $487 million in investments.

Metro Louisville Features

Louisville Is a Certified-Welcoming City

For the fee of $12,000 Louisville Metro or its government (unclear) became ‘certified welcoming’.

What it is

Certified Welcoming is a formal designation for cities and counties that have created policies and programs reflecting their values and commitment to immigrant inclusion. This innovative program assesses city and county governments on their efforts to include and welcome immigrants in all areas of civic, social, and economic life in their communities.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are the fundamental elements of building welcoming societies for all. Welcoming America’s approach is rooted in an understanding that the factors impeding success for immigrants and non-immigrants alike are often rooted in a legacy of colonialism, structural racism, and interpersonal bias that must be overcome in order to achieve our vision of an inclusive society in which people can thrive... Our purpose is to enable belonging for everyone, and explicitly immigrants.

Last abortion facility in Kentucky will be demolished

Twenty percent of JPCS students don't speak English

Jan 23, 2025— Kentucky's public schools have seen a 400% increase over the past 20 years in the number of students who don't speak English — one of the largest increases nationwide. Only Mississippi and South Carolina have also seen such a jump, according to the U.S. Department of Education. | Screenshot: Courier-Journal

For those who leave their home countries and move to Kentucky, 80% come to Louisville. At the end of the last school year, JCPS had nearly 20,000 multilingual students — about 10,000 more students than five years ago.

JCPS SNAPSHOT: 97,000+ students; 150+ schools; $1,700,000,000+ (billion) operating budget; 18,000+ employees; 82 percent graduation rate; one in five non-English speakers

Read more. The NEA has a plan. “As educators, we have accepted the sacred responsibility to protect students.”