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School-based health clinics pilot program in eight counties
By WVEA Communications staff
Teachers and education employees at about 17 schools across eight counties are eligible to participate in a pilot program at their home school-based health clinics, which would allow them to take advantage of reduced or waived copays when they see a primary care physician at the school clinic.
Education employees who choose to enroll in a Comprehensive Care...
Boone County community fights to keep schools
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
VAN, W.Va. — Supporters of two Boone County schools stood outside the buildings holding signs Tuesday morning calling on school officials not to close them.
The school system continues to suffer from the significant downturn in coal and the school board is faced with another $1.7 million dollar budget cut. The supporters believe Van Jr/Sr High School and Van Elementary are on the...
Boone schools considering consolidation
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
Boone County’s cash-strapped public school system, which closed three elementary schools at the end of last school year, posted notices Friday for a public hearing on a proposed closure of Whitesville Elementary.
The hearing is planned for 6 p.m. Nov. 15 at the school, located on W.Va. 3/Boone Street in the town of Whitesville.
Whitesville’s students would be...
PEIA board takes another troubling proposal out to public hearings
By WVEA Communications staff
Active state employees could face $25 million in benefit cuts and retirees face about $17 million in cuts to PEIA in the coming year.
The PEIA Finance Board voted Thursday to take a draft of a fiscal year 2018 plan out on public comment next month.
This is another unacceptable proposal that solely burdens employees, retirees and their families with the...
State board changes science testing grades, sets A-F cut scores
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail
The West Virginia Board of Education voted Wednesday to change the grade levels in which public school students take end-of-year science standardized tests and set cut scores to determine the broader grades for entire schools in the upcoming A-F accountability system.
Board members approved both moves in voice votes with no nays heard. Of the nine...