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ROMNEY - West Virginia State Sen. Donald H. Cookman has been working for several months with West Virginia legislative staff to draft legislation that aims to protect the jobs of the current child care workers of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind.
Several members of the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates have pledged their support for the bill.
This has been an ongoing process and the idea of the...
By Chelsi Baker
Times West Virginian
FAIRMONT — Marion County students missed 19 days of school last year, leaving them with 168 days of instruction after seven of those days were made up.
If the state’s new rules, which will be implemented in the 2014-15 academic year, would have been in effect last year, students would have made up all 19 of their snow days to have a total 180 instructional days for that year.
If that was the case, students would have been in...
By Jennifer Smith
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When history teacher Steve Sayre steps into the classroom this fall it will be his 36th year. For the last seven, he’s taught at Ripley High School in Jackson County but he’s not your average teacher. Sayre’s focus is on advanced placement classes.
“It has expanded from AP U.S. history. I restarted the (AP) World history program and then this past year started the AP European history,” explained Sayre.
He said...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
Making the West Side of Charleston its own school district — separate from the Kanawha County school system and overseen by the state — is the latest suggestion in an attempt to turn around the area’s struggling schools.
Bill White, a member of the West Virginia Board of Education, brought up the idea at a public meeting last week. On Wednesday morning, he said he hoped to get the state board to seriously consider taking over the...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — All high school students in West Virginia will now have the opportunity to graduate with a free information technology certification, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and the state Department of Education announced Tuesday.
Beginning in the fall, students will have access to Microsoft’s IT Academy, which provides a variety of certifications to students for free upon graduation, including opportunities...