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By Jessica Farrish
(Beckley) Register-Herald Reporter
Hours before canceling school in Raleigh County for today, Raleigh Superintendent of Schools Jim Brown and school board members discussed the calendar at the regular board of education meeting Tuesday.
Brown sent out a notice to parents Tuesday, notifying them that six days originally planned as out-of-school environment days and two continuing education days will now be school days.
Students were not required...
By Jenni Vincent
journal-news.net
SPRING MILLS - U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito wore more than one hat at Monday's anti-bullying and cyberbullying forum, an opportunity for Eastern Panhandle educators to collectively discuss these problems.
A concerned mother of three adult children, Capito said she's already worried about her young grandchildren and what awaits them as they grow older.
Capito, who organized the afternoon meeting held at Spring Mills High School...
By Phil Kabler
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cuts in the business franchise and corporate net income tax and the elimination of the sales tax on food have reduced state tax collections in the current budget year by about $360 million, Revenue Secretary Bob Kiss told the Senate Finance Committee on Monday.
"If none of these tax cuts had passed, the state would be seeing significantly higher revenue," said Kiss, who said the goal is that the tax cuts will...
By Douglas Imbrogno
The Sunday Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Textbooks were famously a line in the sand in culture wars that shook Kanawha County in the early 1970s. Trey Kay documented "The Great Textbook War," the title of his award-winning public radio documentary about the subject, which was honored with the Peabody, Murrow and duPont awards.
Textbooks remain a flashpoint for all kinds of cultural and social issues and Kay is back with a new radio documentary, "...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
PARKERSBURG - A chemistry teacher at Parkersburg High School will be the guest of U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., at President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Judith Winans is a chemistry teacher at Parkersburg High and was the 2014 Wood County Teacher of the Year. She has taught school for 26 years.
Obama, a Democrat, is in his second term as chief executive. The speech begins around 9 p.m.