The Bluegrass Institute’s staff education analyst Richard Innes will appear on KET’s “Kentucky Tonight” show on Monday, January 28, 2013 to discuss proposed legislation to raise the minimum high school dropout age in Kentucky to 18.

Show host Bill Goodman’s other guests are scheduled to include:

State Sen. Mike Wilson, R-Bowling Green, chair of the Senate Education Committee; State Rep. Carl Rollins, D-Midway, chair of the House Education Committee and Stu Silberman, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.

Kentucky Tonight airs for the first time on KET-1 at 8 pm Eastern Time on Monday. Check local listings for exact time, channel and for follow-on broadcasts on other KET network stations.

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