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The Associated Press
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education says county school districts should have more control over how their state funding is spent.
A decades-old funding formula determines how much state funding each county system gets annually and how this funding is spent.
Last week, the state board voted to ask the Legislature to consider allowing counties to use up to 10 percent of their state school funding however they choose, the Charleston...
By Shauna Johnson
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A reworked teacher pay raise proposal moving in the state Senate sets a legislative goal of raising salaries for all starting teachers in West Virginia to $43,000 by 2019.
“We knew that this was going to be a long-term plan that would have to be in place,” said Dale Lee, West Virginia Education Association president, on Friday’s MetroNews “Talkline” of the goal.
Members of the Senate Finance Committee will next...
By WVEA Communications Staff
Two West Virginia Education Association members and educators were recognized by the state Board of Education Wednesday after each received a national math and science teaching award.
Barbara "Tootie" Black, the teaching principal at Hometown Elementary in Red House, and Gabrielle Rhodes, a teacher at Union Elementary School in Buckhannon, received Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching late last year.
State...
By Phil Kabler
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's bill to give pay raises to public school teachers and school service personnel advanced Thursday out of the Senate Education Committee -- with a change intended to give more bang for the buck to newer teachers.
The new version of the bill (SB391) would provide an across-the-board $1,000 raise -- instead of giving a 2 percent pay raise to teachers, as Tomblin proposed.
Senate...
By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Board of Education says buying supplies in bulk helped county school systems save more than $2.2 million in 2013.
The board learned this week that the state's eight Regional Education Service Agencies made the savings possible through a cooperative service agreement in place since 2011.
The agreement allows counties to buy instructional supplies and school-related necessities such as custodial supplies at a...