LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — After weeks of waiting, the time finally came for students to lace up their new sneakers and head back to school. School opened for the 2025-26 year in Fayette County along with many other districts across central Kentucky.

“Let's just make this an epic year and do all we can to make sure our kids are learning and growing,” Superintendent Dr. Demetrus Liggins expressed.

Dr. Liggins was joined at Rosa Parks Elementary School by Mayor Linda Gorton who, never misses attending a back-to-school morning welcome event, and remembers when she was dropping off her own children.

“My husband and I would take our kids to school, first day, then go to breakfast together and then to work. It’s a big day in a family's life every year, that first day of school after they had t

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