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By Lacie Pierson
The Herald-Dispatch
WAYNE -- A bond measure that would fund the cost of building two new schools and making significant renovations at another school will be on the agenda for approval from the Wayne County Board of Education this week.
Before the proposed bond election can be put on the Tuesday, May 13, primary election ballot, it first must be approved by board members during their regular meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Wayne County Schools...
By Whitney Burdette
Charleston Daily Mail Staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The state Senate is considering a bill that would require all West Virginia students to participate in at least 30 minutes of physical activity at school each day.
Senate Majority Leader John Unger, D-Berkeley introduced the proposal, dubbed the Move to Improve Act.
He said Move to Improve is the second piece of Feed to Achieve, an initiative passed by the Legislature last year to make nutritious...
By Jeff Jenkins
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Last year it was ‘Feed to Achieve.’ This year the effort aimed at West Virginia schoolchildren is ‘Move to Improve.’
The state Senate is considering a bill that would require an additional physical activity for students in the state’s elementary, middle and high schools.
Representatives of the two teachers unions in West Virginia told a group of senators Friday they support the concept but don’t want an additional...
(Intelligencer Editorial)
The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
Really excellent school teachers, the kind whose influence sticks with their students throughout their lives, seldom get the credit they so richly deserve. That will change for some of them during an event scheduled for this evening.
Members of the late Lee Alexander West's family have chosen to honor his memory in one of the most thoughtful, wonderful ways possible.
West, a 15-year-old freshman at...
New LEED school planned for Beckley
By Stuart Hammer
WOAY-TV
BECKLEY – A Raleigh County school is moving towards a new future, and that future is green.
Stratton Elementary in Beckley could be torn down in the next several years to make way for a brand new energy-efficient building.
Officials from the West Virginia School Building Authority announced their vision for a new facility that will rely on bonds. Part of the construction plans will include energy...