The Kentucky High School Journalism Association has 90 member schools for the current school year as of Dec. 18. Of those those schools, nearly 60 percent have been sponsored by Kentucky newspapers.

Last year, KHSJA, which was established by KPA 13 years ago to be an advocate for high school journalism in the state, had 100 member schools with 70 percent of member schools having their $50 membership fee paid by one or more Kentucky newspapers.

Here are the KPA members who’ve sponsored local schools in KHSJA this year:

Campbellsville Univesity, 11 schools sponsored

Kentucky New Era, 7 schools sponsored

The News-Enterprise, six schools sponsored

The Advocate-Messenger, six schools

Oldham Era, three schools

Pioneer-News, three schools

The Kentucky Standard, three schools

Madisonville Messenger, three schools

Richmond Register, three schools

The Daily News, Bowling Green, three schools

Henry County Local, two schools

The Gleaner, one school

Winchester Sun, one school

Meade County Messenger, one school

Sentinel-News, one school

Carlisle Mercury, one school

Citizen Voice & Times, one school

The Record-Herald, one school

Flemingsburg Gazette, one school

Georgetown News-Graphic, one school

Casey County News, one school

The Record, Leitchfield, one school

Interior-Journal, one school

Ballard Weekly, one school

Jamie Sizemore, one school

There’s still time for your newspaper to sponsor one or more schools in your coverage area. The cost is just $50 per school for the current school year. KPA can bill you or even deduct the sponsorship fee from your next KPS ad revenue check. Or we even take checks or credit cards.

If you’d like to sponsor your local schools, call or e-mail David Greer, KHSJA administrator at (800) 264-5721 or via dgreer@kypress.com and he can set it up. Schools must be KHSJA members to participate in the annual statewide high school journalism content. Member schools also have access to KHSJA-sponsored training workshops and they can attend the annual KHSJA convention.

Nearly 900 high school journalism students and teachers from around Kentucky attended the 2009 state convention which featured former AP Middle East Bureau chief Terry Anderson as the speaker.