WV education officials: no mask mandate, no map, more local control by Erin Beck, Kids’ Health Correspondent West Virginia’s back-to-school plan leaves most COVID-19-related decisions up to local districts. No statewide mask mandate. No statewide virtual school option for elementary school students. No online map dictating countywide shutdowns. During a Read more…
It’s no secret we’re living through challenging times. COVID has removed us from what we know as “normal” life, our nation is grappling with painful questions of racism and equity, it’s a divisive election year, and omnipresent social media gives platform to our meanest impulses. Against this stark background, we Read more…
It’s been called all three- the good, the bad, and the ugly. The new “School Alert System,” aka the color-coded COVID-19 map that the West Virginia Department of Education, in conjunction with the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, launched last week, uses a color-coded metric to determine Read more…