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Overwhelming issues at school districts across the state in the last few years have prompted the West Virginia Department of Education to investigate and intervene in the administration of local education. We learn about an analysis conducted by the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy of 10 school districts and the need for a broader look at the issues facing the state's schools.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia is experiencing a 15-year jump in whooping cough cases, particulary in teens and adults.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Trump administration plans to weaken the Endangered Species Act, and that could impact the fate of an ancient creature found in Appalachia: the eastern hellbender salamander. The Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant recently visited a new preserve dedicated to hellbenders and found not only natural history – but American history.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA Raleigh County judge granted a permanent injunction ordering the West Virginia Board of Education to accept vaccine exemptions to school vaccine requirements.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJudge Richard Lindsay dismissed the lawsuit against the Kanawha County Board of Education, one of several arguing the case for religious exemptions to the state's compulsory vaccine law in schools.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAn ongoing lawsuit over exemptions to the state’s school vaccine requirements in Raleigh County has expanded its scope statewide.
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