Parents worry proposed school merger could disrupt thriving STEM programs

There’s a cloud of uncertainty every time Jackie McCuddy sends her girls off to school these days, and it wasn’t always that way.

“Our girls love going to Rise, I tell the teachers and administrators all the time, ‘they wake up every morning, and they never complain about going to school,’ McCuddy said of their experience with Lexington’s Rise STEM Academy for Girls.

But those feelings could change, if the Fayette County Public Schools new “Project Right Size, Bright Future” decision makers decide to streamline the program there, and the one at George Washington Carver STEM Academy for Boys…

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