KENTUCKY — On today’s program, we’re continuing to celebrate Women’s History Month, which is a time to recognize everyday women who are making history, stamping their mark as inventors, engineers, politicians and much more. Women’s History Month started in 1981 as a week-long celebration, and now each year during the month of March, we continue to highlight a new wave of women who are driven to forge new paths to the future. 

State Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong, D-Louisville, is our guest on this week’s In Focus Kentucky program. She’s one of nine women elected to serve in the 38-pmember senate chamber.

Before winning her seat to the state legislature in a special election in Feb. 2023, Armstrong served on Louisville’s 26-member Metro Council.

During this segment, Armstrong comments on some of the bills she sponsored during this year’s 60-day legislative session, including Senate Bill 40, which called for establishing the Kentucky Proud School Match Program.

“Basically, the federal government offers money to high poverty school districts to expand the free meals that they’re offering to students to help students who otherwise might not have access to nutritious food to get it. The problem with the federal match, and one of the reasons some schools don’t participate, is it doesn’t quite cover all of the costs for those schools. And so there’s some schools that are leaving money on the table because they can’t quite financially make it work. And so this bill would help them be able to do that it would give them some state money to be able to pull down those federal dollars so that we can give more kids in our high-poverty schools access to nutritious food,” mentions Armstrong.

You can watch the full ‘In Focus Kentucky’ segment in the player above.