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By Jenni Vincent - Journal Staff Writer
CHARLES TOWN - Jefferson County Board of Education vice president Scott Sudduth was passionate, but unsuccessful in his attempt at Monday night's meeting to convince others to consider - and ultimately use - some alternate methods for making up student instructional time lost due to severe winter weather.
In the end, board members supported superintendent Susan Wall's plan for converting existing days on the calendar into instructional...
By Kate White
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Three Calhoun County school employees are suing the state and county boards of education because school officials canceled their spring break three weeks before it was supposed to happen.
The lawsuits, filed Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court, also ask a judge to grant an immediate injunction to prevent school officials from changing the calendar, as teachers have made vacation plans and bought plane tickets.
Calhoun County school board...
By Pamela Pritt Register-Herald Reporter
CHARLESTON — The state’s budget is still a work in progress Tuesday after a 60-day session fraught with issues other than the budget Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said in his State of the State address would be tight.
Sen. Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, is the man charged with the balancing act.
Prezioso, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, said Tomblin’s initial budget cut state agencies by 7.5 percent that included a hiring freeze....
By Jonathan Mattise
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON — West Virginia lawmakers are ironing out kinks in an election-year budget that avoids tax hikes and gives public workers raises.
But before statehouse leaders can tout the positives, they’ll begrudgingly look to dig into millions of dollars in savings.
A dreary budget picture looms over the 2014 midterm elections in the House of Delegates, where Democrats hold a slim six-seat edge over Republicans. In West...
By Jeff Jenkins in News | March 09, 2014
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state legislature gave final approval Saturday night to an across-the-board $1,000 teacher pay raise.
“Finally,” West Virginia Education Association President Dale Lee told MetroNews once the bill got the passing vote in the state Senate. The proposal had several ups and downs during the past 60 days.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin originally proposed a two percent raise for teachers and service personnel. The...