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The nonprofit newsroom ProPublica has been reporting on the use of public money to fund private education. Earlier this month, ProPublica published a series of stories about how they, along with Mountain State Spotlight, opened a school in West Virginia. Reporter Jennifer Smith Richards spoke with Chris Schulz about the experience and what it says about modern education.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsIndigenous people created hundreds of earthen monuments in what is now Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. John E. Hancock, a professor of architecture and design at the University of Cincinnati, spent years studying these earthworks. He published a guidebook for visiting them. Inside Appalachia’s Bill Lynch spoke with Hancock about the book.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHancock County Schools is engaging with training and reducing its force to right its fiscal outlook, and a new board member is sworn in.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, volunteers in Wyoming County have found families recovering from last year's floods are unwilling to declare the damage to their homes. And the latest from the state legislature.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe House Finance Committee originated a bill that would place limits on the Hope Scholarship program, including a cap on funds and limits on where they can be spent.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJames Paul is Gov. Patrick Morrisey's first appointment to the State Board of Education.
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