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By WVEA Staff
Sixty-nine West Virginia teachers received National Board Certification for the first time in 2013-2014. Sixteen of them are members of the West Virginia Education Association.
Across the country, more than 4,000 teachers achieved National Board Certification in 2013-2014 through a performance-based, peer-review process.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan, non-governmental organization. Its...
By Shauna Johnson, WV Metronews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Roughly $40 million in benefit cuts have been made to the health insurance plan that covers West Virginia’s state workers.
During a Thursday meeting, members of the Public Employees Insurance Agency’s Finance Board approved the changes that will take effect on July 1, 2015.
“Nobody wants any cuts. Nobody wants any changes, but we do have a fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers and to the government of West Virginia to...
By Ryan Quinn
The Charleston Gazette
Members of a state school board commission considered Wednesday altering the map of Regional Education Service Agencies, but got held up on something people have been asking for years — what are RESAs supposed to do?
The Commission on School District Governance and Administration eventually decided to recommend that the state school board, at its meeting this month, delay altering RESAs’ roles and stick with the current map of...
By Sarah Tincher
The State Journal
West Virginia University will be furthering its STEM education thanks to a $1.45 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative, which will allow the school to establish a UTeach program, a unique teacher-training program for secondary science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers.
The rigorous UTeach program attracts high-performing undergraduate students majoring in STEM fields to the teaching field and...
By Shauna Johnson
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – November was a “very good month” for tax collections in West Virginia, according to state Revenue Secretary Bob Kiss.
Overall, tax officials said collections were more than $30 million ahead of estimates for November or 11 percent better than projections. Compared with Nov. 2013, revenue collections were up by almost 15 percent.
“Obviously, we’ve still got seven months left, so we’ve got long ways to go,” Kiss...