Miller Hall, Former West Virginia Board of Education President, Is Leaving Board

MILLER HALL

CHARLESTON — Miller Corridor, the previous president of the West Virginia Board of Schooling, has resigned as a member of the board, making him the fourth senior training official to step down or switch this month.

“All through my 47-year profession in training, my focus was at all times on kids and doing what was greatest for them, and from this, I by no means wavered,” Corridor wrote in a resignation letter dated Monday. “Nevertheless, I’ve made the choice to step down from my place as a member of the State Board of Schooling.”

Gov. Jim Justice introduced Corridor’s resignation Monday throughout a digital briefing with reporters from Charleston. In his resignation letter, Corridor mentioned he and his spouse Joyce are transferring to Pennsylvania to be nearer to their grandchildren.

“(Corridor) did an unimaginable job, that’s all there may be to it,” Justice mentioned. “We want him the very, perfect. Miller Corridor will at all times be an important West Virginian and every part. At his age now, he needs to be nearer to his grandkids. I don’t know the way it will get any higher than that.”

Justice appointed Corridor to the state Board of Schooling in 2017 to fill an unexpired time period. He was appointed for a full time period in 2019. Corridor’s time period expired on Nov. 4, 2028. Corridor was elected as president of the state board on July 8, 2020, and served till board member Paul Hardesty was elected president on July 13.

Corridor is the most recent in a line of high-profile Board of Schooling and Division of Schooling officers to exit because the starting of August.

The state board voted Aug. 10 to switch Clayton Burch, the earlier state superintendent of faculties, to the West Virginia Colleges for the Deaf and the Blind in Hampshire County as its new superintendent. Burch was changed as state superintendent that very same day by former Faculty Constructing Authority govt director David Roach. Burch had served as state superintendent since June 2020.

Each Corridor and Burch had been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in January by Putnam County father or mother Travis Beaver, Upshur County father or mother Karen Kalar and Raleigh County trainer Wendy Peters together with state Treasurer Riley Moore, Senate President Craig Blair, Home Speaker Roger Hanshaw and Justice. In June, Corridor and Burch filed a response to the lawsuit in assist of the mother and father, breaking with the governor, Legislature and state treasurer.

Additionally leaving the Division of Schooling is Assistant Superintendent of Colleges Jan Barth and Heather Hutchins, who served as common counsel for each the division and the state faculty board. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported final week that Hutchins was changed as common counsel for the board with Stephanie Abraham, a former lawyer for the Logan County Board of Schooling and spouse of Brian Abraham, chief of employees to Justice.

Corridor is a Beckley native and a former trainer and principal at Woodrow Wilson Excessive Faculty. He served as an assistant superintendent for the Raleigh County faculty system. He additionally served as a basketball and soccer coach for center and highschool sports activities in Raleigh County.

“An individual who actually loves kids and loves kids I’d say past good sense,” Justice mentioned of Corridor. “He devoted his life to training. What a job he has achieved. We’ll miss him.”