West Virginia Department of Education

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West Virginia Department of Education
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Agency Profile
Superintendent:Michele Blatt
Year founded:1872
Website:Department Home Page

The West Virginia Department of Education oversees public K-12 education in West Virginia. Click here for more information about the West Virginia Superintendent of Schools.

Structure

Mission

The mission statement of the West Virginia Department of Education reads:[1]

“ The West Virginia Board of Education and State Superintendent of Schools work in concert to establish policies and procedures to assure implementation of West Virginia’s Public Education goals and to ensure the general supervision, oversight and monitoring of a thorough, efficient and effective system of free public schools[2] ”

Superintendent

The current West Virginia Superintendent of Schools is Michele Blatt (nonpartisan). Blatt assumed office in 2023.

State Board of Education

The State Board of Education consists of nine members. It also includes three non-voting members. The Governor appoints nine lay citizens to nine-year terms as voting members. The Superintendent of Schools, the chancellor of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the chancellor of Community and Technical College Education serve as non-voting members. State law requires that the board have no more than five members from a single party on the board at the same time. The board is responsible for overseeing policies at the state's K-12 schools as well as the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.[3]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ West Virginia Department of Education, "West Virginia Board of Education," accessed August 6, 2021
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ West Virginia Department of Education, "Board of Education," accessed August 5, 2021
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