WOWK - Just days before the election, the issue of school closures is becoming a political issue. Read the full article. Even though the State Supreme Court upheld the Hope scholarships, this is still a very divisive issue. In the past year, six schools in Kanawha County were designated for closure and consolidation and it’s…
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Mountain State Spotlight, Times West Virginian - For 40 years in Marion County, Gia Deasy taught special education classes, then worked as the county special education director. She advocated for decades for federal laws to protect people with disabilities, once segregated in institutions. Read the full article. Now, laws protect children who need accommodations at…
West Virginia Watch - Craig Snyder, a biology teacher at Winfield High School, wants the state’s next governor to give teachers a pay raise. Read the full article. West Virginia’s teacher pay is the worst in the country. With proposed price increases to the Public Employees Insurance Agency — a monthly spousal surcharge for state employees would more than…
West Virginia Watch, News from the States, West Virginia Daily News - With days to go before an election that will likely send him to the U.S. Senate, Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday celebrated signing a bill that cuts the state’s income tax. Read the full article. Senate Bill 2033, which lawmakers passed during a…
Public News Service - Changes in bail policy don't affect crime rates in cities nationwide, according to new data from the Brennan Center for Justice. Read the full article. Cash bail has driven up jail overcrowding in West Virginia, and the state continues to struggle with record-high staff vacancies within the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.…
Mountain State Spotlight, Fayette Tribune - With Election Day fast approaching, West Virginians continue to hear about inflation from candidates — mainly Republicans running for local and state offices, who have blamed national Democrats for higher prices and overspending. Read the full article. “Under Bidenomics, hard-working Americans are facing higher inflation, rising gas prices, and…
Mountain State Spotlight - During a national taskforce meeting about opioids in August 2016, an aide whispered into Huntington Mayor Steve Williams’ ear. The top federal drug control official wanted to meet privately with Williams. Read the full article. Just five days earlier, 27 people had overdosed in the span of four hours in Huntington.…
Public News Service, MSN - Women's labor force participation rate in West Virginia has fallen over the past two decades but more are performing unpaid work, mostly as caregivers, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Read the full article. Working women continue to earn less than men, at just under $20 an…
Beckley Register-Herald - Gov. Jim Justice – as pompous, pretentious and self-promoting as they come and, as a person, politician or potentate, take your pick, a decidedly poor personification of the people he is supposed to serve as chief advocate – went out of his way on Wednesday at the end of the most recent…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Last month West Virginia Board of Education members learned the state has not received state-required assessments from many homeschooling families. Barely a third of the state’s homeschooled 11th graders submitted the paperwork last year. Assessments are required in 3rd, 5th, 8th and 11th grades. Read the full article. At the board’s October…