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Kessler discusses Senate Finance vote to kill charter schools bill
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Kessler used a procedural move Monday to kill the controversial public charter schools bill. The Senate Finance Committee was set to take up the bill (SB14) at its afternoon meeting when Kessler (D-Marshall) said he looked around the room and noticed three Republican members of the committee weren’t there.
So he made a motion...
Homeschooling advocates hope for change in legislation
By Jesse Wright, West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Studies show homeschooling is becoming more popular in the U.S. — a trend that West Virginia is following. Advocates are hoping bills recently introduced in the state Legislature will make homeschooling easier.
There were about 7,000 children home-schooled in West Virginia during the 2010 academic year. That number rose to about 9,000 in 2013,...
Manchin speaks during prevailing wage hearing
By Chris Lawrence, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the legislature heard a range of opinions during a Thursday public hearing at the Capitol on legislation aimed at changing the provisions of prevailing wage in West Virginia.
Organized labor and construction workers are against the idea of tampering with the mechanism which currently calculates the wage on publicly financed construction projects...
What does ‘right-to-work’ really mean?
By William Hal Gorby
Words have power in political debates. For West Virginians, the people’s very soul was the historic struggle over their “rights” achieved following 40 years of bloody violence.
On June 23, 1933, 2,500 coal miners descended on Charleston for a rally as representatives of 160,000 new UMWA members.State UMWA leader Van Bittner announced “This is our day it is written in the stars that we shall...
Bill for charter schools gets OK
By Joel Ebert, Charleston Daily Mail
A controversial charter school bill that was subjected to more than three hours of debate on Tuesday has finally been passed through a Senate Education Committee.
Meeting five times over the last two days, including three separate occasions on Tuesday, the committee approved numerous amendments to Senate Bill 14, which establishes a pathway for the creation of charter schools in West...