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West Virginia schools get A to F grades starting today
By Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s public schools start getting graded A-F today.
The new grading system made its debut during a state school board meeting, although it has been in development for months. Parents and community members can see an explanation and schools’ report cards at www.mywvschool.org.
Most of West...
Tomblin announces 2 percent budget cut for W.Va. government agencies
By MetroNews Staff
There will be an across-the-board mid-year budget cut of 2 percent for most state government agencies, according to a Tuesday announcement made by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.
The governor said the reduction is due to the state’s General Revenue Fund falling behind by more than $87 million since July.
The cuts will include a nearly $11 million reduction to the...
School closures, constructions planned; A-F grades coming next week
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
The West Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday approved new plans involving school closures and constructions in Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe and Wood counties, and state education officials said the delayed A-F grades for entire schools should be approved and publicly released next week.
The new grades, largely based on students’ annual end-of-...
Majority of WV public college grads leave state for work
Jake Jarvis, WV Gazette-Mail
The majority of students who graduated from West Virginia’s public colleges between 2003 and 2013 didn’t go on to work in the state, a new report from West Virginia University finds
.About two-thirds of the students who are from West Virginia wound up working in the state, and only about 10 percent of the out-of-state students did, according to the report.
For the...
Emails show White lobbied for state Board of Education VP position
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
Bill White publicly accused fellow West Virginia Board of Education members last year of making a “back room deal” to select the board’s three officers, and told a reporter twice after the July 2015 board vote — in which he wasn’t named one of the leaders — that he didn’t want an officer position.
But about a month and a half before the vote on...