FRANKFORT - (TNS) A state lawmaker said she hopes to file a bill this winter that would ban the Fayette County Public Schools and other K-12 school districts from using public money to hire their own private lobbyists.

On Friday, the Herald-Leader reported that the Fayette County Public Schools has a Lexington firm, Piper-Smith LLC, on a three-year contract, paying it $60,000 annually to lobby Kentucky state government.

In addition, Superintendent Demetrus Liggins in May awarded a second contract to Piper-Smith for $38,000 to promote a controversial 50% increase in the school district’s occupational license tax.

When the tax increase effort abruptly failed in June, the lobbyists turned their attention to behind-the-scenes reputation damage control for Liggins amid a worsening school di

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