Marple Firing To Be Reconsidered

{Charleston, West Virginia}…West Virginia Board of Education  President Wade Linger said Tuesday that the board will meet again November 29th to vote on Superintendent Jorea Marple's firing after concerns were raised over whether the board violated the open meetings law when it voted 5-2 to fire her last Thursday. State Board of Education member Gayle Manchin, wife of Senator Joe Manchin, said Tuesday that the need to change the deep-seeded culture at West Virginia's public school system prompted her vote last week to fire Superintendent Jorea Marple. Manchin blamed a mindset at the state Department of Education for West Virginia's chronically poor rankings on test scores and graduation rates. Manchin says, although close to $2 billion was spent this budget year, one of the highest investments of education in the country, the "results certainly do not attest to that."