Kentucky AG Joins Suit Over Governor’s Ban on In-Person Instruction at Religious Schools

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during a news conference at the state's Emergency Operations Center at the Boone National Guard Center in Frankfort, Ky., about the pandemic situation, on May 3, 2020. Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP

The Kentucky attorney general has joined with a Christian school to sue Gov. Andy Beshear to block his order that bans in-person instruction at religious schools.

Beshear issued an order (pdf) on Nov. 18 that directs all public and private elementary, middle, and high schools to cease “in-person instruction and transition to remote or virtual instruction beginning November 23, 2020.”