Kentucky officials are facing a second lawsuit over a new law to make Kentucky State University a polytechnic institution.
Filing the case in Franklin County Circuit Court last week, a group of anonymously identified students allege that Senate Bill 185 violates the Kentucky Constitution. The students argued that if the law is implemented, it could affect their programs of study at KSU.
A group of KSU students, alumni and prospective students filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month also challenging SB 185. Earlier this year, the bill sped through the end of the General Assembly’s legislative session and was touted as a way to avoid closing the institution, which is Kentucky’s only public historically Black university…