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By Ben Adducchio
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Editor's Note: WVPB begins a series of stories looking into the issue of how to keep young people in West Virginia. This came about as part of a special digital project undertaken at West Virginia Public Broadcasting over the past few months, WVNextIn6.
We asked you to tell us what’s next for West Virginia in six words or less. Several posts had the theme “Keep our Best and Brightest here.”
According to a recent...
By Marla Pisciotta
Cumberland Times-News
ROMNEY, W.Va. — Although the West Virginia School Building Authority has declined to provide any funding to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to begin building new residential learning centers, SBA Executive Director Mark Manchin said construction plans are not ditched.
The 2014 proposal request was for $7.1 million with the WVSDB contributing another $750,000.
“I’m disappointed,” Lynn Boyer,...
By Jean Tarbett Hardiman
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch
CHARLESTON -- Wayne County Schools was approved Monday to receive $18 million from the West Virginia School Building Authority for new and renovated facilities, if the county's voters agree to provide a similar amount by approving a bond proposal on May 13.
The SBA funds would make up a portion of $42.2 million the county wants for school projects. Those include construction of a new Ceredo-Kenova Elementary School...
The Times West Virginian (editorial)
We’ve stressed many times over the years that strong education is critical to the economic health of West Virginia.
That applies to pre-kindergarten through high school, as well as higher education.
That’s why an upcoming hire of a new state superintendent of schools is vitally important.
West Virginia Superintendent James B. Phares, a former superintendent in Marion County, announced his retirement this month after only 15...
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is assembling a council of education and industry leaders to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics opportunities in West Virginia.
The panel formed Thursday aims to spur growth in STEM degree graduates over the next decade.
Tomblin said an education push will prepare for projects like a proposed ethane cracker plant in Wood County. The initiative could require thousands of qualified workers...