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Silas House is a major voice for Appalachia. The Kentucky native has written more than 15 books and served as the state's poet laureate. His latest book is The Tulip Poplars, a sweeping novel about the lives of four people as they navigate friendship and forbidden love throughout the 20th century. Inside Appalachia's Mason Adams spoke with House.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsRyan Saxe, superintendent of Berkeley County Schools, said the suit is about whether West Virginia school funding system adequately supports what school districts are responsible for providing their students.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe suit alleges the generative chatbot can be dangerous to vulnerable users, like children, including coaching users to commit suicide or to harm other people. It also states OpenAI has been misleading the public into believing that ChatGPT is a tool that puts safety first.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe West Virginia Board of Education got its first look Wednesday at a proposal to update school funding in West Virginia, and voted that that the current funding formula does not provide a thorough and efficient education to public school students.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo cases about whether the West Virginia Board of Education can mandate vaccines to students entering school without allowing for religious exemptions have been combined by the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe suit, filed with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, asks the court to declare the state’s school funding system unconstitutional and order the state to meet its duty to provide a thorough and efficient education to every child in West Virginia.
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