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By Shauna Johnson
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Retired public employees and teachers will be at the State Capitol on Thursday morning, pushing for two pieces of legislation that those with the Coalition of Retired Public Employees say are long overdue.
“It’s a matter of priorities,” said Ernie “Spud” Terry, CORPE spokesperson, who was helping organize the annual event to build support for the group’s legislative causes.
Again this year, group members are...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Board of Education is in the preliminary phases of determining what aspects of student achievement will be considered when the state makes the switch to an A-F labeling system for schools in the fall.
The state will swap its old five-category accountability system -- which the state Department of Education unveiled in May when it received a No Child Left Behind waiver -- to move to what...
By Mackenzie Mays
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Amid a push for more transparency in West Virginia's teacher hiring process, state Superintendent of Schools Jim Phares is denying accusations he played a part in his son's recent hiring as a teacher.
Last year, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's education reform bill -- which also de-emphasized seniority in the hiring process -- gave teachers the ability to weigh in on hiring decisions at their school alongside principals. But if a school's faculty...
By Tricia Lynn Strader -, journal-news.net
BERKELEY SPRINGS - A Jefferson County circuit court judge has dismissed a challenge to a special school levy election set for May 13 in Morgan County.
In January, attorney Michael L. Scales filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents Dorothea Jeannie Ford, Frieda Ickes and Kent "Brooks" McCumbee. The complaint said according West Virginia Code 18-9-1, the school board can only present a previously defeated levy vote again at a general...
By Jessica Farrish Register-Herald Reporter
Two Woodrow Wilson High School teachers addressed the Raleigh County Board of Education Tuesday evening on the anticipated change from block to period scheduling.
Woodrow Faculty Chair Vicki Moss asked that teachers be notified of any upcoming changes and that they be allowed an academic year to make a smooth transition.
“Until this morning, we were all under the impression that all of the Raleigh County high schools would...