Community implores Raleigh County Board of Education to keep Mabscott Elementary open

Measuring equity-efficiency tradeoffs in elementary education settings

School leaders regularly make decisions on how to deploy their finite resources—staff, money, time—in ways they believe will best serve their students. While distribution is likely intended to be both efficient (providing the maximum benefit possible) and egalitarian (not benefiting one group of students over another), reality dictates that tradeoffs between these two goals must regularly be made, per the “leaky bucket” theory propounded by Arth…

Community implores Raleigh County Board of Education to keep Mabscott Elementary open

BECKLEY — Parents and students alike exercised their First Amendment rights at Tuesday night's Raleigh County School Board meeting to stand up against the closure of Mabscott Elementary School.