Manual RedEye - student news for Dupont Manual HS

07/04/2025

NTI DAY! Due to flooding and unsafe road conditions, all JCPS schools will be closed on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. This will operate as an NTI day.

06/04/2025

NTI DAY! Due to flooding and unsafe road conditions, all JCPS schools will be closed on Monday, April 7, 2025. This will operate as an NTI day.

19/02/2025

NTI DAY! Due to inclement weather, all JCPS schools will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, February 19, 2025. This will operate as an NTI day.

12/02/2025

Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism around the state has soared. Read more below about the spike and how it impacts Manual...

Chronic absenteeism has become one of the most prevalent problems facing schools nationwide in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kentucky schools are no different. Pre pandemic, one in six students were chronically absent in Kentucky, about 17%. However, in the 2022-23 school year, that number...

11/02/2025

On Saturday, Feb. 8, the Louisville Democrats hosted a rally to protest billionaire Elon Musk’s increasingly prevalent role in the Trump administration.

On Saturday, Feb. 8, the Louisville Democrats hosted a rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 369 headquarters to protest billionaire Elon Musk’s increasingly prevalent role in the Trump administration. Congressman Morgan McGarvey, who represents Kentucky’s 3rd...

06/02/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Due to increased illness-related student and staff absences, all JCPS schools will be closed on Friday, February 7, 2025 and Monday, February 10, 2025. These will operate as NTI days.

JCPS continues to see rises in flu related absences. Last week there were 181 reported cases of the flu, which is seven times more than the week before when only 25 were reported. The absences come as flu cases are on the rise citywide. According to the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health a...

30/01/2025

BREAKING NEWS: On Jan. 28, the JCPS Board of Education unanimously voted to reinstate busing to six magnet schools, including Manual. Read more below...

On Jan. 28, the JCPS Board of Education unanimously voted to restore bus transportation to six magnet schools, including Manual. The plan shown in a presentation in Tuesday’s meeting outlines restoring bus transportation for Free and Reduced Lunch students at Manual, Butler Traditional and Louisvi...

29/01/2025

Read about former President Biden's accomplishments from election night to the end of his term in this article by staffer Alex Hopkins.

Joe Biden has served his final days as President of the United States, ending his half-century long career in politics, Donald Trump officially taking the reins on Jan. 20. Between the Nov. 2024 election and Trump’s inauguration, Biden made pardons and commutes, signed legislation into law and awa...

22/01/2025

"Since Carter died within 30 days of the 20th, tradition would have it that the flags would be at half mast—fitting for a country half in mourning."

Read more about staffer Grady Amick's opinion about Trump's inauguration on our website.

At the end of his first campaign, now-President Trump promised to tear the system down. For all the promises he’s broken, it’s worth giving credit where it’s due: that pledge rings truer than ever. Trump has put forward a laundry list of unqualified cabinet nominees expected to be confirmed by...

14/01/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Non-profit, Kentucky Student Voice Team, sues the state of Kentucky over inadequate education. Stay tuned for more information and a story coming soon!

Photos by Grace Fridy.

27/09/2024

JCPS Superintendent Dr. Marty Pollio just announced his retirement. Read the story here:

On Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, Dr. Marty Pollio, the JCPS superintendent, announced he will retire at the end of this school year. In a letter to all JCPS personnel, Pollio explained he had given the school board a three-year commitment beginning in 2022. “This is the final year of that three-year agr...

27/09/2024

BREAKING NEWS: JCPS Superintendent Dr. Marty Pollio announces his retirement. More information to come soon.