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By Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House of Delegates has two new top leaders on the Education Committee.
Delegate Joe Ellington, who had been the chairman of Health and Human Resources, has been named the new Education Committee chairman. Ellington, 60 is a Republican from Mercer County. He is also an obstetrician-gynecologist in Princeton.
The vice-chairman is Joshua Higginbotham, R-Putnam.
Education issues have been a focus...
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw announced Monday he’s called delegates back into special session to finish up some work that it didn’t get to last month.
The special session will resume Monday, July 22, at noon. That’s the same day state lawmakers are scheduled to be at the state capitol for monthly interim committee meetings.
House Communications Director Jared Hunt said House leadership plans...
By Sally Ho, The Washington Post
SEATTLE — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch’s powerful network that’s known for influencing state policy is now targeting education issues like school choice as the movement battles a new wave of hostility from Democrats who oppose charter schools and private school vouchers that use taxpayer money.
Koch in June announced the Yes Every Kid initiative as the latest addition to his sprawling network of wealthy donors, political groups and tax...
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Like a prizefighter slumped in the corner of the ring, West Virginia’s embattled education reform law will have to answer another bell in coming weeks.
The West Virginia Education Association announced Wednesday it intends to sue the state over the recent passage of a bill, which it says is unconstitutional while going beyond the will of the people.
“Well, we think the whole thing violates West Virginia’s Constitution,”...
By Heather Deluca-Nestor, published in The Beckley register-Herald
I felt compelled to offer an alternative perspective to the recent article (“A call for civility in teacher unions,” July 3) by state senator Rollan Roberts that states that the “present behavior of the teacher and service personnel unions behavior has been reprehensible, vindictive, retaliatory, and hypocritical.”
Two years ago I was elected President of the Monongalia County Education Association, an 8th grade...