For many West Virginia foster kids, the issue isn’t that they’re out-of-state. It’s that they’re institutionalized in the first place.
Throughout the session, lawmakers have protected data center development by blocking attempts for more transparency and input from communities.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s foster care plan brings kids back to West Virginia, but it still leaves the state overreliant on group homes.
A House proposal to cap the Hope Scholarship sparked pushback as lawmakers grapple with a projected $230 million cost.
Lawmakers have just under three weeks to push through legislation to help parents and providers if federal child care rules are reversed. The Biden administration passed a rule that federal subsidies ...
After saying they would propose $250 million for clean drinking water projects in the coalfields, lawmakers signed on to a ...
State grants help local agencies prepare land for development, but most of the funding is already committed. Morrisey didn’t budget for more support.
Federal officials want to roll back child care funding rules designed to stabilize providers and lower costs for families.
West Virginia lawmakers are debating how to help rescue financially strapped school systems that educate most of the state’s kids, while pumping more money into private schools. This story first ...
Residents of Wyoming County brought water sourced from their communities to a Mountain State Spotlight listening session in 2024. Photo by Tre Spencer / Mountain State Spotlight Throughout the ...
Stark disparities continue to exist in how Black students and low-income students are disciplined in West Virginia schools, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.
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