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By: Shauna Johnson, WV MetroNews
West Virginia’s public school enrollment is down by 4,858 students this school year, a decline that Dr. Steven Paine, state superintendent of schools, is partly attributing to changes in the enrollment cutoff date for pre-kindergarten.
Without those delayed from entering pre-kindergarten, “We’re probably more like 2,800 kids down,” Paine said.
He called that number similar or a “tad higher” than enrollment declines in previous years....
By: Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
A group chosen by state education leaders has recommended giving county boards of education, and perhaps even individual principals, freedom to label student offenses currently considered less serious as more serious.
This would allow schools to newly punish such offenses with out-of-school suspensions without having it held against them.
The recommendation, which would have to be approved by the West Virginia Board of Education to...
By: Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail
In a holding pattern while waiting for recommendations from the PEIA Task Force, the PEIA Finance Board on Wednesday announced that it is canceling the board’s Nov. 15 meeting, and pushing a series of statewide public hearings on its proposed 2019-20 benefits plan back to mid-December.
The meeting and public hearings have been delayed on the apparent expectation...
By Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Lawmakers have passed several far-reaching laws affecting prekindergarten-12th grade education over the past four years, and tried — but failed — to pass other significant legislation.
Half of the seats in the state Senate, and all House of Delegates seats, are up for grabs in Tuesday’s election. Senate terms are for four years, and delegate terms are for two years.
Teachers, bus drivers and others chanted “Remember in November”...
By: Jake Jarvis, WV News
CLAY — Gov. Jim Justice told a group of students at Clay County High School Wednesday morning that he would probably be running for a second term in 2020.
Justice, speaking at an event with the British ambassador to the United States, said he would decide for sure in a “little while.”
“I really felt like I was here to serve, and I didn’t know if there would be enough challenges to motivate me to be able to stay,” Justice said, remembering when he...