By Jessica Farrish
The Register-Herald
West Virginia Board of Education members made national news Monday, the result of a vote at a December meeting to alter references to human-driven climate change in the latest state science curriculum standards.
WVBOE members made the changes to the Next Generation Science Standards blueprint for the 2016-2017 school year in an effort to create debate on whether greenhouse gas emissions by human activity is changing the...
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January-08-2015
January-08-2015
By Ryan Quinn
The Charleston Gazette
The West Virginia Board of Education’s president said the board will discuss the state’s controversial alterations to climate change science education standards at the start of next week’s meeting.
Gayle Manchin, who said she trusts the state Department of Education staff’s assertion that the altered standards are sound, said she’s requested that the item be placed on the school board’s agenda under new business, which usually comes...
January-07-2015
By Hoppy Kercheval
WV MetroNews
NEW YORK, NY – Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will propose using $85 million from the state’s Rainy Day reserve fund to balance the 2016 fiscal year budget, according to Fitch Ratings. If approved by the Legislature it will make the second year in a row the state has had to tap into savings to balance the budget.
Last year, the state needed $100 million from the emergency account to achieve a balanced budget. Even after the withdrawal, the state...
January-06-2015
By Jeff Jenkins
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The positive news that surfaced following November tax collections in West Virginia took an about-face Monday when the revenue figures for December were released. State Revenue Secretary Bob Kiss said collections missed estimates by $27 million.
Kiss said that probably means the state government hiring freeze will remain in effect for the rest of the fiscal year.
“Our hope was that (the freeze) may not have to be in...
January-05-2015
By Ryan Quinn
The Sunday Gazette-Mail
Groups that support teaching students about the evidence showing that humans are contributing to a global rise in temperatures are speaking out against West Virginia’s changes to the state’s new K-12 science education standards.
At the request of state school board member Wade Linger, who said he doesn’t believe human-influenced climate change is a “foregone conclusion,” the teaching requirements concerning climate change were...