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Three people were inside this burning home but managed to get out safely.
Firefighters are battling a massive fire in East Bank in Kanawha County. A house on Walnut Street went up in flames around 5:15 a.m. Firefighters said two people were home at the time but managed to
Three escape massive fire in a home on Walnut Street in Kanawha County
Lloyd Jackson, a long-time advocate of early childhood education in West Virginia and a member of the state Board of Education, has been named the first recipient of the West Virginia Champion of Pre-K Award.
The award was presented Wednesday at the West Virginia Department of Education's Pre-K Leadership Summit in Charleston.
"I am honored to receive this award," said Jackson in a news release from the WV Department of Education. "Working together, our school system, DHHR, Head Start and private providers have crafted a pre-K system that is a model for the rest of the nation, and I am proud to have been associated with this effort."
As former chairman of the state Senate Education Committee, Jackson led efforts that led to the passage of legislation creating the Universal Pre-K program in West Virginia. It required universal preschool be available to all of the state's 4-year-olds by the 2012-2013 school year.
Across the state, about 16,000 children are enrolled in about 1,050 West Virginia Universal Pre-K classrooms.
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