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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah elementary school teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm at school was struck by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet when her gun accidentally fired in a faculty bathroom on Thursday, officials said.
The sixth-grade teacher at Westbrook Elementary School, in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, was injured when the bullet struck a toilet and caused it to explode, Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley...
By Mackenzie Mays,
The West Virginia Board of Education is considering major reform for the state’s school system, which would change the way local school districts operate.
Education leaders are examining ways to restructure the state’s 55-district school system by putting school management and bookkeeping responsibilities in the hands of an outside entity, allowing local administrators to focus more on student achievement.
As part of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s...
By Phil Kabler
The Charleston Gazette
An Internal Revenue Service regulation defining “normal retirement age” as 62 or older probably won’t go into effect until Spring 2016, the executive director of the state Consolidated Public Retirement Board said Monday.
In order to go into effect next year, the revised IRS regulation would have put out for public comment by mid-October, which Jeff Fleck told a legislative interim committee is highly unlikely.
“If the...
By Katie Anderson
WBOY
WEST UNION - In January of 2014 Governor Tomblin announced in his State of the State Address that he wanted the WV Board of Education to develop a grading system for schools. Policy 2320 is now in place, and Doddridge County Schools will be one of the first to be graded.
The emphasis of Policy 2320 is to make it so the public understands how schools are performing.
That's where the grading system comes in. Schools will now be graded on...
by Marla Pisciotta
For The State Journal
Child care workers at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind have been speaking out for months against the administration's decision to re-align their jobs.
They have picketed, traveled to Charleston to speak with the state Board of Education and the governor, and consulted numerous legislators.
Their efforts seem to have paid off.
A meeting was called at 4 p.m. Tuesday in a continuing effort to try...