Tina Grace,
53, a Mingo County special education teacher accused
of injuring special-needs children, agreed last week to give up her certification
in exchange for abuse charges against her being dismissed. Grace was indicted
by a Mingo County grand jury last July on two
felony counts of child abuse resulting in injury and one count of misdemeanor
battery. Donna Hurst, a 60 year old teacher's aide, was charged with one count
of battery.