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Some counties stick with testing schedule despite missed days
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Students in some county school systems in West Virginia have started taking the annual standardized tests even though their school years now won’t until at least mid-June.
The year-end dates were moved back to allow for makeup days necessitated by winter weather cancellations. The state Board of Education denied waiver requests made by 27...
PEIA faces cuts to health insurance
By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette
Short of the governor approving more than $100 million in new state funding for premium increases, the Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board will have to steel itself this...
WV Center On Budget and Policy: State Should Make Tax System More Fair
Dan Heyman, Public News Service - WV
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - As West Virginia lawmakers consider reforming the state's tax code, the West Virginia Center On Budget and Policy is arguing that it needs to be made fairer to low- and middle-income families.
Over time, said Ted Boettner, executive director of the center, the state's tax system gradually has come to favor the wealthy.
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Jail for 9 of 10 ex-educators in Atlanta test-cheating case
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal "the sickest thing that's ever happened in this town."
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter had delayed sentencing by...
Teacher retirements, enrollment drop affect Kanawha schools budget
By Ryan Quinn, Staff writer, Charleston Gazette
Tye Ward, Charleston Gazette
The lowest student enrollment in at least two decades and the continuing retirement of experienced teachers will drop state funding for Kanawha County’s next school year by more than $3.4 million.
Next month, the Kanawha school board is expected to approve a $236.1 million 2015-16 school year general...