LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Lexington’s newest elementary school will honor a trailblazer in the district.
The Fayette County Public Schools board voted unanimously Thursday night to name the school on Greendale Road after Helen Caise Wade.
Caise Wade enrolled in summer classes at Lafayette High School in 1955 when she was 16. In doing so, she became the first African American student to attend a white high school in Lexington…