News Briefs
West Virginia’s comprehensive—and clutter-free—education Web portal has won an award from a group that provides consulting services on educational information technology.
September 30, 2008
The latest pension proposal offers teachers a chance to move to a defined-benefit program that would give teachers a guaranteed pension upon retirement.
March 25, 2008
School building officials in West Virginia hope to cut down on construction costs through an increasingly common—but often controversial—strategy: relying on predesigned schools, or prototypes, when approving blueprints.
February 19, 2008
Faced with a drop in the number of state hunting licenses issued last year, West Virginia lawmakers have proposed hunter-training courses for middle and high schoolers.
February 19, 2008
A revised school aid formula that was supposed to provide more money for teacher pay hasn’t worked out the way it was intended and needs to be fixed, Gov. Manchin said during his address to the legislature.
January 22, 2008
Teachers in West Virginia will see a 3.5 percent salary increase under the $10 billion budget bill approved by state lawmakers.
April 10, 2007
Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia officially took control last week of the state panel that oversees school construction in his state, signaling that he intends to reverse policies that have forced more than 200 schools to close since 1990.
April 12, 2005
Now that schools in West Virginia are free from two decades of court oversight, state education and legislative leaders must prove they can continue the progress a judge recently commended as he concluded a long-running lawsuit filed by parents almost 30 years ago.
January 15, 2003
In West Virginia, where the state has closed more than 325 schools in a push for consolidation, anti-merger advocates are saying the system does just as much harm as good.
April 10, 2002
It may come as no surprise that the state of West Virginia has seized control of the troubled McDowell County school district. But in an unusual twist, the takeover came at the request of the district's own leaders, who acknowledged that they could no longer handle the job.
November 21, 2001
