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County officials say they weren't contacted by TFA
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
Officials from two of the three West Virginia counties that a Teach For America leader said the group plans to serve say they haven’t been contacted by the organization, and one official said his county likely won’t need the program.
“I have had no contact with anyone from Teach for America, and if I had, I have a feeling their plans would have been altered,”...
Teacher shortages and inadequate resources fail special needs students in W.Va
By Robert Devitt, Logan Helfferich and Kayla Kesselman TheDAOnline.com | The Daily Anthenaeum
Roy Stevens, a 17-year-old with Down syndrome, wasn’t receiving adequate special education services at his high school in Hundred, West Virginia, so the local school board required him to attend another school about an hour away from his home.
Because the Wetzel County Board of...
Calhoun seeking change to small county school funding
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
Officials from the county school system with the biggest deficit in West Virginia want changes to a part of the state’s school aid funding formula that’s meant to help the lowest-enrollment counties by paying them for students they don’t have.
There are nine counties in the Mountain State with fewer than 1,400 public school students from prekindergarten...
Promise scholars more likely to come from wealthy families
By Samuel Speciale, Education Reporter, WV Gazette-Mail
Promise scholars are more likely to be female and come from wealthy families, says a new report on the state’s financial aid programs
.A recent West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission report, which looked at the state’s merit-based scholarship and need-based grants, found first-year Promise recipients whose parents earn more than $90...
Teach For America still coming to W.Va., but impact may be limited
By Ryan Quinn, Education Reporter, WV Gazette-Mail
Teach For America plans to begin providing teachers to West Virginia in August, but the organization will start with only five to 15 educators total in three southern counties, a number expected to grow to only about 30-35 within the next five years.
That’s according to Will Nash, head of Teach For America Appalachia, the part of the...