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On this episode of The Legislature Today, Assistant News Director Maria Young turned to the issue of legislation related to foster care and adoption as multiple bills wind their way through the two chambers. She spoke with Jaycie Bias, executive director with the West Virginia Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Parents Network, and Rachel Kinder with Mission West Virginia, a non-profit that advocates and focuses on those same areas.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Senate had a lively day to start the week, passing 10 bills on issues ranging from optometry to carbon sequestration. Two of those bills deal with the wellbeing of students in the state’s public schools.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEducation committees on both sides of the Capitol have focused on bills that failed to pass the previous year to start this year’s session.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsUpdated on Tuesday, March. 4, 2025 at 2:53 p.m. A bill to address disciplinary issues in West Virginia schools passed the House of Delegates Monday. ...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, the committee chairs of the legislature's education committees are trying to address discipline and staffing issues in state schools, and a W.Va. native is still reeling from losing her dream job as part of the federal government’s workforce reduction efforts.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, News Director Eric Douglas talks with the chairs of House and Senate Education, Sen. Amy Grady, R-Mason, and Del. Joe Ellington, R-Mercer. They discuss a wide range of topics including school discipline and ways the state can improve the ongoing teacher shortage.
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