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Boone school board meets Thursday; may consider new cuts
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
Boone County’s school board has called a special meeting for noon Thursday -- the last day of this fiscal year -- and may vote on state-directed cuts to its 2016-17 fiscal year budget, which the board already passed and takes effect Friday.
The state Department of Education has declined to comment on the issue until after the meeting. Boone schools...
National education leaders giving money for supplies at flooded schools
By Shauna Johnson, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — First comes cleaning, then comes repairs and resupplying at the more than two dozen West Virginia schools damaged, in some form, in the June 23rd flood.
Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, is pledging his organization’s support for the affected teachers and students with about six weeks remaining before...
School damage reports changing rapidly; start times may be pushed back
By WV MetroNews Staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State school leaders are taking post-flood procedures day by day and assessment by assessment.
Damage has been reported in schools in 25 of the state’s 55 counties.
“I’m hopeful, but in some cases we’re very concerned about the severe damage,” said West Virginia Schools Superintendent Dr. Michael Martirano.
Tuesday morning he was...
25 schools reportedly damaged by flood, storm
By David Gutman and Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
At Herbert Hoover High School near Clendenin, 3 to 5 inches of mud still coated the entire first floor Monday, an unwelcome gift left by 6 feet of flood water that swamped the school and may prevent it from starting classes on time next school year.
About 5 miles down the road, at Bridge Elementary School in Elkview, the flood filled the school with 3...
SBA: Fayette building needs too great; kids' education suffering
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
OAK HILL — West Virginia School Building Authority officials have told Fayette County Capital Planning Committee members that the SBA can’t afford to fix all the county’s school buildings, that students, staff and resources are spread thin among facilities and that kids’ education is suffering because of it.
“Deferred maintenance and upkeep has...