Article: State briefs

Most education grads don't get state jobs

Only 20 percent of students who graduated from West Virginia colleges last year with an education degree got jobs in state public schools, according to a state Department of Education report.

Four out of every five education majors didn't make the grade in public schools because half of them specialized in elementary education, an area with few job openings last year.

Only 14 of 100 West Virginia University graduates, 26 of 166 Marshall University graduates and 13 of 50 state college graduates landed teaching jobs in the state.

State school Superintendent David Stewart said counties have no problem filling elementary education jobs. But they sorely ...

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