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On this West Virginia Morning, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders’ iconic items earned big bucks at auction. For the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, reporter Andrew Henderson went to the auction and hung around for the fried chicken.
Also, West Virginia lawmakers have said school funding reform is a top priority in next year’s legislative session, and they got a glimpse of the governor’s perspective on the issue.
And, members of the Joint Committee on Children and Families were frustrated by the lack of detailed information they received regarding critical incidents involving children in state care.
Finally, state lawmakers also discussed AI-surveillance cameras for nearly an hour and a half on Sunday as controversies continue over the use of the technology.
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Drew McClanahan of the West Virginia Department of Education noted that despite being a small percentage of the overall student population, students facing extreme adversity outside the classroom were overrepresented in the data.
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