West Virginia is using nearly $8 million in federal anti-poverty dollars to pay for its long-troubled and broken online database system.
PRINCETON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey, facing scrutiny for the state’s handling of the school clothing allowance program, has shifted his focus th…
Some community and technical colleges in West Virginia have been forced to cut personnel focused on helping students access school supplies, f…
Gov. Patrick Morrisey is mulling over giving up to $16 million dollars of West Virginia’s federal anti-poverty grant to Star Academy, a for-profit education company that is supposed to help struggling middle-school students. At the same time, the governor has warned that he may have to cut funding to programs that help poor children access […]
About a week after Mountain State Spotlight wrote about Clay County’s only childcare center in April, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, vis…
Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced on Tuesday that he will seek the Legislature's approval to expand the state Department of Education's Star Aca…
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Conventional wisdom suggests that a budget is a moral document, a reflection of what and who we value. In the book of Matthew, we can find bib…
The cost of child care has recently been on the minds of many in the Mountain State. It likely will be part of the discussion when Gov. Jim Ju…
