Editing DuPont Manual High School (section)

===Magnet school===
Manual became a magnet school in 1984, creating specialty programs and allowing students from around the district to apply to attend.<ref>{{cite news|title=This Week in History|work=The Courier-Journal|date=February 16, 2009|author=Pinkston, Antwon|page=4B}}</ref> The change initially met with a mixed reaction, especially as most freshmen and sophomores were to be transferred to other schools. One critic in the black community called the plan "one-way busing".<ref>{{cite news|title=Manual Teachers, Parents React With Euphoria, Shock|work=The Courier-Journal|date=February 14, 1984|page=A4|author=Ellis, Leslie}}</ref> A few days after the proposal was announced, about 300 students walked out of class at Manual and marched to [[Central High School (Louisville, Kentucky)|Central High School]], where most of them were being transferred, in protest. The protest succeeded in persuading the school board to modify the proposal to exclude sophomores from being transferred.<ref>{{cite news|title=300 Manual Students Show School Officials Some 'Public Response'|page=A1|work=The Courier-Journal|date=February 16, 1984|author=Ellis, Leslie}}</ref>

The magnet programs succeeded in attracting applicants and by the mid-1990s only about a third of students who applied were accepted.<ref name="McDaniel p. 219">McDaniel ''Stand Up and Cheer'' p. 219</ref> In the midst of the transition to magnet school, Manual underwent a $1.9 million building improvement plan which added computer and science labs.<ref>{{cite news|title=NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, UPDATING OF GOLDSMITH AND MANUAL GET FUNDS|author=Holland, Holly|date=February 28, 1989|page=1B|work=The Courier-Journal}}</ref><ref>McDaniel ''Stand Up and Cheer'' p. 212–219</ref> Also in 1991, the [[United States Department of Education]] recognized Manual as a Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the department can bestow on a school.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR2005092800698.html|title=Folger McKinsey Wins Blue Ribbon|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 25, 2005|author=de Vise, Daniel|pages=AA03|access-date=May 6, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf |title=Blue Ribbon Schools Program – Schools Recognized 1982–1983 Through 1999–2002 |publisher=Department of Education |access-date=April 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326055622/http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/list-1982.pdf |archive-date=March 26, 2009  }}</ref> The school earned a Blue Ribbon award again in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jefferson.kyschools.us/departments/communications/monday-memo/dupont-manual-named-2020-national-blue-ribbon-school |title=DuPont Manual Named 2020 National Blue Ribbon School |publisher=Jefferson County Public Schools |access-date=March 3, 2021}}</ref>

Many interior shots of the 1999 film ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'' were filmed at Manual.<ref>{{cite news|title=Movie review; 'Insider' tells tense tale but needed an editor|work=The Courier-Journal|date=November 5, 1999|author=Egerton, Judith|page=14W}}</ref> Dr. [[Jeffrey Wigand]], the subject of the film, taught science and Japanese at Manual after he was fired by [[tobacco]] company [[Brown & Williamson]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tobacco whistle-blower critical of how some states spend settlement money|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/80662_wigand31.shtml|date=July 31, 2002|author=Naito, Jon|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref>