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Students in Kentucky are being offered a “do-over year.” A bill that passed in the state senate on Tuesday allows students to repeat a grade or to supplement the classes they’ve taken, after the COVID-19 global pandemic disrupted their learning over the past year. The first version of the bill allowed only high school students to repeat a year, but the Courier-Journal recently reported that it was expanded to all students in Grades K-12.
In addition to the academic year, the bill grants all seniors an extra year of athletic eligibility and allows them to return for a fifth season.
The NCAA has already decided that it will not count the 2020-21 season toward eligibility and granted a blanket waiver for its athletes, but Kentucky is the first state to do so on the high school level.
