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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education approved policy changes Wednesday that allow for fully online charter schools, enable an unelected board to circumvent county boards of education to open charters and open the door to 10 new charters every three years, up from three every three years. The school board also said public schoolchildren don’t need at least a 2.0 grade point average to currently start extracurricular practices, including sports practices and conditioning. Board president Miller Hall cited the coronavirus pandemic’s social, emotional and academic effe...

HUNTINGTON — Two West Virginia education visionaries are passing the baton. Stan and Barbara Maynard retired at the end of June from the June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development, a program of the College of Education and Professional Development at Marshall University. Stan Maynard, executive director of the June Harless Center, taught at a variety of programmatic levels in his career and has spent the past 41 years at Marshall serving in a variety of ways, which have included teaching curriculum and instruction and reading courses, serving as associate dean for...

Cheryl Jeffers reads to 4-year-old Trinity Williams at the Barboursville Public Library in this April 15, 2021, file photo. West Virginia is partnering with the Dollywood Foundation to provide approximately 258,000 books to public schoolchildren entering first, second or third grade. Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch