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By: Jake Jarvis, WV News
CLAY — Gov. Jim Justice told a group of students at Clay County High School Wednesday morning that he would probably be running for a second term in 2020.
Justice, speaking at an event with the British ambassador to the United States, said he would decide for sure in a “little while.”
“I really felt like I was here to serve, and I didn’t know if there would be enough challenges to motivate me to be able to stay,” Justice said, remembering when he...
By: Phil Kabler, WV Gazette-Mail
Meeting for the first time since August, members of Gov. Jim Justice’s PEIA Task Force on Monday discussed issues with costs for out-of-state providers and with rising prescription drug costs.
Afterward, Mike Hall, the Task Force chairman and Justice’s chief of staff, blamed the long hiatus on scheduling conflicts of committee members.
“It’s difficult to get this group of people together on the same day,” Hall said of the 10-member...
By: Pete Davis, WV MetroNews
PINEVILLE, W.Va. — Long before Wyoming County residents learned that the county’s largest private employer, the Pinnacle Mine, would not be saved from closure, administrators with the public school system were preparing for the economic hardship that such a circumstance likely would create for the county’s schools, which rely heavily on revenue generated by taxes from area businesses.
Deirdre Cline became Superintendent of Wyoming...
By: Tina Alvey, Beckley Register-Herald
...By: Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
The state Department of Education has finalized a plan to address the poor scores in math and student attendance issues that showed up against on the first-ever Balanced Scorecard released earlier this school year.
Mathematics performance, particularly at the middle school and high school levels, is low system wide. Only 37 percent of students tested proficient in math, 45 percent in English/Language Arts.
“The math plan is done,” state...