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Justice leads pack in governor’s race
By Hoppy Kercheval , WV MetroNews
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Common Core repeal bills stalled in House Education Committee
By Shauna Johnson, WV MetroNews
With just more than three weeks left in the 2016 Regular Legislative Session, several bills introduced to cut ties between West Virginia’s educational standards and Common Core standards remain pending in the House Education Committee.
“While the state Board and others claim that these (Common Core) standards are better, that’s absolutely false. They’re worse...
Senate finance committee gets started on Tomblin’s tobacco tax increase bill
By MetroNews Staff
The Senate Finance Committee began debate Tuesday on legislation that will raise the prices of cigarettes, other tobacco products and e-cigarettes.
The bill (HB 420) is Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s proposal to raise additional tax money to help balance the state’s budgets for this fiscal year and next.
The bill raises the tax on a pack of cigarettes from the...
West Virginia leads nation again in school breakfast participation
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
The Food Research & Action Center announced Tuesday for the second year in a row West Virginia is doing better than any other state in the nation getting school kids to eat breakfast at school.
It wasn’t always that way, Richard Goff, executive director of the Office of Child Nutrition at the West Virginia Department of Education, told MetroNews.
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