Committee Chairs Focus On Discipline And Adjusting After Dream Federal Job Cut, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, school discipline has been a key legislative issue for several years. As legislators consider that and other bills that could impact education across the state, West Virginia Public Broadcasting News Director Eric Douglas spoke with Sen. Amy Grady of Mason County and Del. Joe Ellington of Mercer County, chairs of the Education committees in their respective chambers, at the capitol for The Legislature Today.

And a 24-year-old West Virginia native in the early days of what she describes as a dream job was among 1,000 National Park Service workers fired this month, part of the federal government’s workforce reduction effort. As Maria Young reports, she’s scrambling to find her next job, but wondering if her termination does the nation any good.

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Maria Young produced this episode.

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