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By JD Supra Business Advisor
A recent decision by the West Viginia Supreme Court of Appeals has now paved the way for public bodies, including boards of education, to impose a reasonable hourly search fee for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
It is not uncommon for a county board of education to receive at least one FOIA request per week. For example, most, if not all county boards of education received a FOIA request last month from the West Virginia School Service...
By Jessica Farrish
(Beckley) Register-Herald Reporter
BECKLEY — When the iRaleigh Initiative in the Raleigh County school district placed iPads with every public school student at the beginning of the school year, most teachers and administrators agreed that technology in the classroom is necessary.
West Virginia is one of 29 states in the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). The new academic assessment system will be extremely competitive and...
By Warren Scott, Staff Writer
The Herald-Star
FOLLANSBEE - The 2013 West Virginia Teacher of the Year encouraged youth at Follansbee Middle School to consider the consequences of their actions, whether posting on the Internet or preparing for school.
"You are all capable of doing great things, if you make the right choices," said Erin Sponaugle, a Berkeley County fifth-grade teacher who was among county teachers of the year submitted from throughout the state to...
By Marla Pisciotta
For The State Journal
A second meeting within as many weeks was hosted by child care workers and union representatives to discuss their fate as employees of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Romney.
A recommendation to change the job designation from "child care workers" to "residential care specialist" was presented to the West Virginia Board of Education March 12 by WVSDB superintendent Lynn Boyer. The recommendation was...
By WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As the state Board of Education looks nationwide for the next state school superintendent, the president of the West Virginia Education Association isn’t convinced the search needs to go that far afield.
“I still think you have to have some ties to West Virginia,” said Dale Lee. “You have to have some knowledge of our school system to be able to successfully lead us in a direction we want to go right now.
“We need someone who will...