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By WDTV
State education leaders came together on Monday to learn more about a program West Virginia might adopt to make sure teachers in training are ready for the classroom.
The program is called edTPA. It focuses on how prepared a novice teacher is to give lessons involving elementary literacy.
Monday's meeting was held at WVU and education leaders from all areas of the state were in attendance. Stanford helped create the program and officials are saying 33 states are...
By Joselyn King
The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register
WHEELING - People told Ohio County Board of Education members Monday night they "want their summers back," and they strongly oppose a year-round school calendar.
More than 200 concerned citizens turned out for a town hall meeting at Wheeling Park High School to discuss the school district's 2014 calendar, and most indicated they vehemently oppose sending children to school during warm weather months. School...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 840 people have signed an online petition to get Kanawha County Schools to supply bottled water for students through the end of the school year.
But state officials can't say how long they'll be able to continue supplying packaged water to students.
The petition, created on the website MoveOn.org in response to last month's chemical leak, asks the state's largest school district to supply water...
By WVEA Communications Staff
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Fifty county boards of education support the adoption of a multiyear salary increase for teachers and service personnel across West Virginia schools, and board members have signed resolutions pledging their support.
These resolutions, one piece of the West Virginia Education Association’s Competitive Pay Campaign, acknowledge that professional educators and service personnel are the most critical ingredient to providing West...
W.Va. receives $3 million School Improvement Grant
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia is among six states to receive School Improvement Grants from the U.S. Department of Education.
The state will receive $3,177,082, which will be distributed to its lowest-performing schools.
Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, Virginia and the District of Columbia also will receive funding.
School Improvement Grants are...