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The Kanawha County Textbook War, also known as the Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, was a violent school control struggle in the 20th century United States. It led to the largest protests ever in the history of Kanawha County, West Virginia, the shooting of one bystander, and extended school closings. The controversy erupted in 1974 when ...
A small West Virginia school will remain open after a judge sided with residents who fought a county superintendent's decision to relocate classes due to contaminated groundwater under the school ...
AFT-Kanawha is a local affiliate of AFT-West Virginia. [12] All AFT local unions are affiliated with the National and WV AFL-CIO [13] The West Virginia School Service Personnel (WVSSPA) [14] represents school service personnel in Kanawha County Schools. School service personnel include non-administrative office employees, aides, custodians ...
The West Virginia Constitution of 1872 dismantled the township system, though the State would remain divided into 398 school districts until the County Unit Plan was approved in 1933, which organized schools at the county level. [4] The West Virginia Board of Education was established in 1908. At that time, the Board's members were appointed by ...
In West Virginia last week, safety activist Michele Gay, whose 7-year-old daughter was among those killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, said the same.
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] The Board is vested with general supervision of West Virginia's 618 elementary and secondary schools. Its twelve members include nine citizens appointed by the governor and three non-voting ex-officio members: the State Superintendent of Schools, the Chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, and the Chancellor of ...
Jan. 15—Dark fears—expressed in the form of data research. Nearly 80 % of parents responding to an annual back-to-school survey last summer by a nonprofit, national advocacy group said they ...