| Calhoun Schools signed an agreement yesterday with a Glenville State
College project which is expected to provide science, math and technical
education to local students.
 Dr. Loralyn Taylor (pictured left) told
school board members last night that students will be involved with the
Little Kanawha Watershed Education and Research Center at GSC.
Taylor said the project is linked to GLOBE, a worldwide program involving
12,000 schools and one million primary and secondary students.
Grantsville resident Joan Dawson declined an executive session to
discuss her personnel issues at the school board meeting last night.
Joan Dawson (left) discusses personnel problem
with Superintendent
Ron Blankenship
Dawson said she was upset, claiming she had been hired by the school
system to fill a position at the Arnoldsburg School, and was welcomed as
a member of the staff, displaying a school program.
She then was told another person was hired, and she did not have the job.
"Now it seems I am not being recommended for the job and my name has
been removed (from the hiring list)" Dawson said. "There is something
really wrong with this."
Superintendent Ron Blankenship said "No one was hired until the Board
approved the hiring." Blankenship told Mrs. Dawson she was not the best
qualified applicant. She responded by saying "I was on the staff and
someone changed their mind." Dawson said she was not clear what to do
with her grievance, after last night's meeting.
David Corson (left) entered into an executive session with the school
board last night to reportedly discuss school policy, using the Citizen's
Appeal process.
The board covered a number of other issues at the meeting.
Details will follow.
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