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July 28, 2020
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There are now official voting options for the 2020 November general election in West Virginia.
Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office announced guidelines that include a voter being able to request an absentee ballot online or by phone due to COVID-19 concerns.
According to Warner, all a voter needs to do is select “...
By Moriah Balingit, The Washington Post
July 22, 2020
The school year for Greenville County Schools, in South Carolina, starts a little more than a month from now, and officials are still scrambling to figure out what school will look like for the district’s nearly 77,000 students. Will students return to school full time? Or part time? Or will they even open school buildings?
Whatever the plan is, said Superintendent W. Burke Royster, it will be driven...
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
July 20, 2020
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Words being used by education leaders in West Virginia show the significant impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had on both secondary and higher education.
“Our enrollment and room and board are down, auxiliary activities have been cut out, we’re staring down the possibility of closing multiple colleges this fall,” state Higher Education Chancellor Dr. Sarah Armstrong...
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
July 17, 2020
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — All 55 county school systems have until Aug. 14 to submit a reentry plan to the state Department of Education using the department’s toolkit.
State School Superintendent Clayton Burch said those plans will cover a wide variety of pandemic-related issues.
“Everything from transportation to cafeterias to the classroom itself,” Burch said Thursday on MetroNews “Talkline...
By Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews
July 9, 2020
At almost the same moment federal officials were urging a full return to schools in the fall, West Virginia Jim Justice said the state isn’t ready and pushed back the start date to Sept. 8.
That came as West Virginia’s numbers for positives compared to overall testing, reproductive rate and hospitalizations surged alarmingly.
Two counties — Monongalia and Kanawha — reported one-day records for positive...