Search Block
House of Delegates to vote on education personnel bill Tuesday
By Alex Thomas, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates will vote on a bill Tuesday that would change how state colleges and universities handle personnel decisions.
House Bill 2542 would give higher education institutions more flexibility in hiring and firing certain employees, as well as more control over salary rates.
The House...
WVUTeach receives more funding to train math and science teachers
By Sunshine Wiles, WV MetroNews
A teaching program at WVU that is really in its infancy is picking up steam and funding.
Two years ago the university received a $1.45 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to start training science and math teachers at the secondary level through WVUTeach. This month, WVU announced a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science...
Dismantling WV Education and the Arts Department eyed
Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
The West Virginia House Education Committee, in a voice vote with a few nays heard, passed Wednesday night a bill that would eliminate the Department of Education and the Arts and transfer most of the agencies it contains elsewhere in state government.
House Bill 2524, of which committee Chairman Paul Espinosa, R-Jefferson, is the lead sponsor, also would essentially...
Requirement for 180 separate days of school instruction dropped in Senate bill
By Shauna Johnson, WV MetroNews
A bill moving at the State Capitol two weeks into the 2017 Regular Legislative Session would end West Virginia’s existing requirement for 180 separate days of instruction in the Mountain State’s schools.
“I think that, in the end, you’ll have better results with this,” predicted Senate Education Committee Chair Kenny Mann (R-Monroe, 10) who spoke...
Help needed for state DOE Summer Feeding Program
By Carrie Hodousek, WV MetroNews
The state Department of Education is searching for organizations to help feed children across West Virginia this summer.
“We have a high number of kids that need to be fed through the summer that depend on our school breakfast and lunch,” said Cybele Boehm, coordinator of the Summer Food Service Program.
The program needs community groups to help provide children with...