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Delegate offers help to find PEIA funds in budget
By Pamela Pritt REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
As state employees, including teachers and other school personnel, are confronted by proposed $120 million cuts to PEIA benefits in the next fiscal year, Raleigh County Delegate Ricky Moye has offered to help Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin find money to “fully fund the Public Employees Insurance Agency.”
Moye, a school bus driver, is offering to take on a pretty big task. ...
Kessler urges more WV funding for PEIA
By Phil Kabler, Statehouse Reporter, WV Gazette Mail
Senate Minority Leader Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, urged the Tomblin administration to find additional state funding for the Public Employees Insurance Agency, to alleviate the need to impose $120 million of benefits cuts for public school and state employees and retirees.
In September, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin notified the PEIA Finance Board that the state contribution...
WV proposed new standards contain much language identical to Common Core
By Ryan Quinn, Education Reporter, WV Gazette-Mail
West Virginia’s proposed new K-12 math and English language arts standards, which the state schools superintendent says aren’t based on Common Core, contain much of the exact same language as the controversial national standards blueprint.
State Superintendent Michael Martirano told the state Board of Education and media Friday,...
Community members still rallying against Wetzel County board of education
By Tessa DiTirro, WTRF.com
The latest board of education meeting in Wetzel county was so packed, people couldn't even get through the door. Teachers, parents, and students are still up-in-arms about the way the board is handling themselves. 7News spoke with Johnna Harter, a Wetzel county parent who gave a speech at the meeting. She claims her son had an inappropriate encounter with a board...
Wifi Coming to School Buses
By Alyssa Meisner, Digital Journalist/Anchor, WOWKTV.com
KANAWHA COUNTY- Kanawha County has found a way to squeeze in more learning time. This week the district will install wifi on 158 buses. Students will only be able to use their school-issued iPads on their ride.
"A lot of kids have a 30-40 minute ride home and when you look at that, they can knock it out before they get there, it's an opportunity for some children who don...