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The Marion County Board of Education meets for an emergency meeting on Jan. 22, 2021 to discuss school reentry.
The ruling requires some in-person instruction for grades K-8 regardless of the color on the state’s COVID-19 risk map.
All 55 county school systems are now offering some in-person classes. In some places, school might be held in brick-and-mortar buildings a full five days a week, but in others, some have shortened days, and some are blended alternating between in-person and remote throughout the week.
Fully remote learning is no longer permitted for students in kindergarten through middle school, and high schools are only allowed to be remote when a county is red on the state’s coronavirus map.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two largest teachers unions are asking judges to halt or slow down the governor’s push to reopen more classrooms during the pandemic.
WV teachers unions ask judges to halt school reopening
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) West Virginia’s two largest teachers union are asking judges to halt or slow down the governor’s push to reopen more classrooms during the pandemic.
The West Virginia Education Association is seeking a temporary halt to the State Board of Education’s mandate for in-person instruction. And the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia filed a separate lawsuit to prevent teachers from returning to schools until all education workers are offered a second coronavirus shot.
The unions have said it is unsafe to put teachers and workers back in classrooms as coronavirus cases still climb.
CHARLETON – The state s two largest teacher’s unions have filed complaints seeking to have the state Board of Education and others refrain from requiring in-person schooling until all school personnel receive a complete vaccination against COVID-19 and to allow county school boards to determine how and when in-person instruction and activity will resume.
The West Virginia Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO, President Fred Albert and members Jerry Throckmorton, Greg Garber and Amy Haden filed their complaint January 20 in Kanawha Circuit Court against the West Virginia Department of Education, state Schools Superintendent Clayton Burch, the state Board of Education, the Kanawha County Board of Education and Kanawha Superintendent Dr. Tom Williams.