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Staff writer PARKERSBURG — A statewide teachers union is planning to file an injunction regarding the return of students to in-person schooling next week. The American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia announced Thursday it plans to file an injunctive action against the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, and several county boards of education in order to protect the health and safety of school employees. The announcement came a day after the state board’s vote that PreK-8 schools will attend in-person instruction regardless of their county’...

Fred Albert For the 14th year, Newport Life asked you to share your photographic impressions of Newport County, and more than 150 of you responded, flooding our inbox with hundreds of images. If this year’s Photo Contest had a theme song, it would be Sunrise, Sunset. Parti-colored skies streaked with clouds — often reflected off water — dominated the submissions, overshadowing every other subject. In a nod to social distancing, perhaps, only a handful of photos depicted human subjects, and only one entry addressed the pandemic head-on, earning a spot on the pages that follow. Also ear...

sadams@newsandsentinel.com CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two unions representing educators are not happy with plans to bring staff and students back to school in-person and are skeptical about plans to have teachers vaccinated against COVID-19 in time. Gov. Jim Justice announced last week that Pre-K, elementary schools and middle schools will reopen for in-person learning Jan. 19 regardless of a county’s color on the County Alert System map. High schools also will reopen for in-person learning as long as the county is not listed as red due to high infection rates or percent of positivity...

For The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two unions representing educators are not happy with plans to bring staff and students back to school in-person and are skeptical about plans to have teachers vaccinated against COVID-19 in time. Gov. Jim Justice announced last week that Pre-K, elementary schools and middle schools will reopen for in-person learning Jan. 19 regardless of a county’s color on the County Alert System map. High schools also will reopen for in-person learning as long as the county is not listed as red due to high infection rates or percent of positivity. As...

Pat Wellenbach / AP New data from Pennsylvania’s Department of Education shows that the pandemic has caused a small, but significant enrollment decline at traditional public schools, while increasing the share of cyber charter students. It’s also revealed an interesting divide. While public schools in urban and suburban counties have lost students, schools in more rural counties have largely tread water. Overall, preliminary enrollment data shows a 1.7% drop in total public school enrollment, which equates to about 30,000 students statewide. The dip was more pronounced in kindergarte...