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By Kate White
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The agency that administers state employees' retirement plans has been short-changing veterans by using a too narrow definition for what constitutes military service, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
Five men filed suit after the state Consolidated Public Retirement Board denied them credit for years they had served in the military.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib reversed the board's...
LACIE PIERSON
CRUM -- The results of Crum Elementary School's WESTEST 2 efforts for the 2012-13 school year have been invalidated following a state investigation into questionable erasure marks on some tests.
Wayne County Schools officials are working to move forward after completing their own investigation into the matter, which deals specifically with one section of the test completed by fifth-grade students, said Superintendent Lynn Hurt.
The school system was...
By Brandi Underwood, Register-Herald Reporter
The Fayette County Board of Education submitted its 2014-2015 school calendar to the West Virginia Board of Education this week, and while preliminary approval has been granted, the calendar is still awaiting a final vote from the state board.
A total of 701 Fayette County school personnel submitted their votes for either “Calendar A” or “Calendar B” during March 11-21. Final tallies revealed “Calendar A” to have squeaked ahead...
By Katie Kuba, Upshur Bureau Chief
The Inter-Mountain
BUCKHANNON - Upshur County Board of Education members and school system administrators continued to answer citizens' questions about the proposed sample calendars for the 2014-2015 school year - while also raising some questions of their own - during a public hearing Tuesday.
The calendars - which are posted on the school system's website, www.upshurcountyschools....
By Herb Scribner
Teachers educate the country, aiding all ages in the search for education. But as far as salaries and pay goes, some say teachers aren't receiving any help back. That's something that should be changed, according to the Washington Post's recent article "Why teachers' salaries should be doubled - now" by Valerie Strauss.
Most teachers - about 92 percent - are paying for school supplies out of their own pocket, and more than 60 percent are working second jobs,...