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 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…
In the midst of a pandemic, after two school years disrupted by labor actions, with hundreds fewer students enrolled than just three years ago, you’d think it would be difficult to expand services and meet the ever growing list of needs kids bring with them to school. But last week, Read more…