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WV state school board considering no-labels school accountability plan
Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Following its abandonment of two “summative” labeling systems in three years, the West Virginia Board of Education is now considering a new school accountability system that would no longer give any overall labels to entire schools.
For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years, the board’s “Accountability Index” labeled entire schools with words like “...
Late twist revives WV Gov. Justice’s revenue plan
By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail
A tumultuous 19th day of the special session was marked by yet another twist Thursday evening, as the Senate dramatically passed the seemingly umpteenth version of Gov. Jim Justice’s revenue plan on a 30-2 vote (Senate Bill 1017).
That vote came at 8:20 p.m., some eight hours after a meeting Justice held with legislators to pitch his latest proposal seemed to end...
Nicholas school board to sue over consolidation plan denial
By Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Nicholas County’s school board voted Wednesday night to sue to attempt to reverse the West Virginia Board of Education’s denial of its school consolidation plan.
No one was heard voting no in Wednesday’s voice vote for legal action, which came after the Nicholas board emerged from a more-than-two-hour closed session.
Rebecca Tinder, an attorney...
State board rejects plan to consolidate Nicholas schools
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
The West Virginia Board of Education voted Tuesday to reject the Nicholas County school board’s proposal to consolidate five schools in Richwood, Summersville and Craigsville onto one campus near Summersville.
The vote came after a surprise public presentation from a state School Building Authority official and the state schools superintendent on a general...
State school board votes to deny Nicholas consolidation plan
By Craig Poole, WOWK 13 News
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) - The West Virginia State Board of Education has voted to deny consolidation in the Nicholas County case.
The state Board of Education is now asking the Nicholas County Board of Education to consider a proposal where a consolidated middle school and high school could be built in Richwood and in Summersville. The Nicholas County Board of...