🚨KENTUCKY EXCLUSIVE:
McCracken County Public Schools public statements about LifeWise don’t match its own records.🚨

📍On July 16, 2026,
WPSD-TV reported that LifeWise had experienced “zero issues” and that it had “not been a burden to our school system in any way.”
📍The article also quoted Superintendent Josh Hunt saying there were no additional schools before the board for approval and “nothing to consider.”

But SEA obtained the district’s emails through public records and they tell a very different story.
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August 8, 2025-
Months before LifeWise launched at Lone Oak Intermediate, district leaders were not simply evaluating the proposal—they were openly celebrating it.

Lone Oak Intermediate Principal Tim Bundren wrote:
“I am really excited about the LifeWise Program and am privileged to be a pilot school for McCracken!”

Minutes later, Director of Elementary Instruction Marc Mavigliano replied:
“This is a fantastic program, and like Tim mentioned, we’re honored to pilot it at LOI.”

These emails provide important context for everything that followed. They show senior district administrators expressing enthusiastic support for LifeWise before the program was implemented; followed by months of district involvement in its attendance systems, parent communications, student logistics, problem-solving, and proposed expansion.
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January 12, 2026-
District leaders created an attendance tracking system specifically for LifeWise.

An assistant principal sent LifeWise a spreadsheet created by district leaders and instructed LifeWise personnel to use it to check students in and out in real time before leaving campus.
This wasn’t a program operating independently. School staff were creating systems to run it.
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March 10, 2026-
A parent contacted the school after their child received an “Incomplete” on a report card because they missed PE while attending LifeWise.

The school’s response? Administrators didn’t simply answer the parent. The principal drafted a letter for LifeWise to send to parents explaining why students would receive an “Incomplete.”
In other words, the district wasn’t just responding internally—it was helping LifeWise manage parent communications.
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March 18, 2026-
District staff documented that LifeWise students returned after dismissal.

Because students couldn’t be checked back into the attendance system after school ended, staff instructed employees to manually enter an earlier return time.

“Please check them back in at 3:15, because we can’t check them in after the school day ends.”

The district added:
“We will keep this email for our records.”

Yet four months later, the public was told there had been “zero issues.” 👀
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May 19, 2026-
Two months before the WPSD article, LifeWise Director Shaylon Freeman emailed the principal of Reidland Elementary:
“I discussed expanding our program with Josh Hunt and wanted to reach out to you to discuss launching at Reidland Elementary.”

Superintendent Hunt was copied on the email. 😬👀
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📍So while the public was told on July 16 that there were no additional schools before the board, district leadership had already been discussing expansion with LifeWise and another principal since at least May 19.

Those are two very different pictures and the record speaks for itself. By the time these public statements were made, the district’s own emails already documented:

🚩district-created attendance systems for LifeWise
🚩school staff managing LifeWise rosters
🚩administrators drafting parent communications for LifeWise
🚩students returning after dismissal and requiring attendance workarounds
🚩expansion discussions involving the superintendent and another elementary school.

We will let the public decide whether that’s consistent with a program that had “zero issues” and “hasn’t been a burden” on the district… One thing is certain: Those records existed BEFORE those public statements were made.🤦‍♀️

📍This also isn’t the first time SEA has documented McCracken County.

In December 2025, we published an investigation detailing how LifeWise gained a foothold in the district through months of planning, coordination, and administrative involvement before the public ever saw a proposal.

Since then, we’ve continued obtaining records through public records requests.

Taken together, McCracken County has become one of the most thoroughly documented examples we’ve found of administrative entanglement between a public school district and LifeWise. The emails don’t just show a program operating during the school day—they show district personnel helping implement it, troubleshoot it, communicate with parents about it, and discuss expanding it.
And this may only be part of the record.

SEA is continuing to review documents from McCracken County Schools. As additional emails and records are examined, we will report what they show.

🚨For now, the public should understand this much: the reassuring statements made just days ago do not reflect the full story already contained in the district’s own files.🚨

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