Across the State

For education-related news concerning various county boards, please refer to the following West Virginia newspaper Web sites. Some newspaper sites require registrations and/or subscriptions. Additional newspaper Web sites are covered under the "News" section.

Beckley	Register-Herald
Bluefield	Bluefield Daily Telegrap
Charleston	Charleston Newspapers
Charleston	Charleston Gazette
Charleston	Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston	Sunday Gazette Mail
Clarksburg	Clarksburg Exponent/Telegram
Elkins	The Inter-Mountain
Fairmont	Times West Virginian
Huntington	Herald Dispatch
Huntington	The Parthenon
Keyser	Mineral Daily News-Tribune
Lewisburg	WV Daily News
Logan	Logan Banner
Martinsburg	The Journal
Morgantown	Dominion Post
Morgantown	Daily Athenaeum
Parkersburg	Parkersburg News/Sentinel
Point Pleasant	Point Pleasant Register
Wayne	Wayne County News
Weirton	Weirton Daily Times
Wheeling	News-Register/Intelligencer
Williamson	Williamson Daily News

For non-daily newspapers, please see "News" above

West Virginia Department of Education

Across the Nation

The following are three links that can be used to receive education news from a national perspective. For West Virginia county-board related news Web sites, refer to the WVSBA homepage and/or the "News" section.

ECS e-clips

PEN Weekly NewsBlast

Education Week

 

 

THE LEGISLATURE - 2010

The Legislature Issue 23 includes the latest information about August 2010 Interim legislative meetings, articles relating to the state Board of Education’s “GED Option,” the state Superintendent of Schools’ commentary relating to educational progress in West Virginia, West Virginia School Board Association-related news, including a “Showcase of Counties”…and much, much more. The Legislature is WVSBA’s flagship publication which has been published since 1980. For more information, please contact Howard M. O’Cull, Ed.D., WVSBA Executive Director – hocull@wvsba.org

THE LEGISLATURE (ARCHIVED ISSUES)
Archived issues of The Legislature , 2001 - 2009 Regular Session, can be retrieved here.

PROCECEDURES FOR REQUIRED COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT EVALUATION.
View evaluation of county superintendent.

Customized Training Workshops

• WVSBA provides a number of customized county board training sessions, dealing with topics such as policy development, meeting management, county board ethics, board/superintendent relations, board and superintendent evaluation, etc. Approved training credits.

Goal-setting / Planning

• WVSBA offers an extensive goal-setting program based primarily on the county board’s completion of its required annual self-evaluation - §18-5-1c – as well as vision and mission development. One or more work sessions may be involved. Approved training credits.

Mediation

• WVSBA has extensive experience in mediation when issues arise in terms of intra-board relations. These services often are set up in an informal workshop format.

Superintendent Evaluation

• WVSBA conducts an extensive review of procedures for the statutorily-required county superintendent evaluation - §18 -4-6. These sessions include a review of legislative and state Board of Education requirements relating to the superintendent evaluation process. Approved training credits.

Superintendent Search

• For more than two decades, WVSBA has been conducting superintendent searches. This extensive experience allows the organization to customize each search to meet individual county board needs by utilizing highly specialized services, search-related documents and evaluative components. As determined by the county board and incoming county schools superintendent, the program includes a local orientation components.

Retreats

• WVSBA has extensive experience in designing county board retreats with a special focus on board development, goal-setting and planning – all facets of retreat design. Approved training credits.