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By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
The state’s teachers unions are up in arms over a teacher evaluation policy proposed by the West Virginia Department of Education that they say throws away years of teachers’ input on the system and unfairly holds some teachers more responsible for student test scores than others.
Beginning next school year, due partly to the state’s detachment from No Child Left Behind, math and reading teachers who teach grade levels that take...
By WVEA Communications Staff
A Raleigh County teacher and longtime West Virginia Education Association member is the 2014 recipient of the Paul J. Morris Character Educator of the Year award.
Doris Meador is a Title I reading and math teacher for both Independence High School and Independence Middle. She received her award during Wednesday's state Board of Education meeting.
Over the years, Meador has been a volleyball coach, a yearbook editor and a book drive...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
Several Kanawha County school board candidates are promising to fight against the state’s implementation of Common Core Standards if they are elected, but it’s not that easy.
Nearly every state in the country has adopted the standards, which pledge to focus on more meaningful, real-world applications to prepare students for college and a career.
Indiana is the only state to totally opt out, with critics fearing a national...
By MetroNews Staff
It took three attempts, but voters in Wayne County have approved an $18 million school construction bond — a key component in a larger $42 million package.
That package includes construction of a new Ceredo-Kenova Elementary School and a new Crum Elementary School and will also pay for additions and renovations at Wayne High School.
The unofficial vote totals in Wayne County in Tuesday’s primary election were 4,192 votes for the bond and 3,265 against...
By Lydia Nuzum
The Charleston Gazette
When Gaston Caperton was in the second grade, his teacher noticed him struggling to read and began to suspect the future governor of West Virginia might have dyslexia, a common learning disorder.
“Ms. Robinson called my parents and said, ‘Gaston has a problem,’” he recalled. “Because of her, and because of parents who really paid attention to me and gave the effort, I’ve had a successful life.”
Caperton, the 31st governor of...