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West Virginia Board of Training member Miller Corridor has resigned from the board,

CHARLESTON – Miller Corridor, the previous president of the West Virginia Board of Training, 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 all the time on kids and doing what was finest 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 Training.”

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

“(Corridor) did an unbelievable job, that’s all there may be to it,” Justice stated. “We want him the very, absolute best. Miller Corridor will all the time be an excellent West Virginian and every thing. 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 Training 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 Training and Division of Training officers to exit for the reason that starting of August.

The state board voted Aug. 10 to switch Clayton Burch, the earlier state superintendent of faculties, to the West Virginia Faculties 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 government director David Roach. Burch served as state superintendent since June 2020.

Each Corridor and Burch have 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 help of the mother and father, breaking with the governor, Legislature and state treasurer.

Additionally leaving the Division of Training is Assistant Superintendent of Faculties Jan Barth and Heather Hutchins, who served as basic counsel for each the division and the state faculty board. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported final week that Hutchins was changed as basic counsel for the board with Stephanie Abraham a former legal professional for the Logan County Board of Training 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.

“I really like Miller Corridor and that household,” Justice stated. “They completely have been the best with me that you may ever think about. When my son Jay was going out for basketball tryouts and simply destroyed his ankle … Jay was in a wheelchair for a very long time and Miller was the principal of the varsity. Day after day after day we’d drive to the varsity and Miller would meet him there and assist him get into the varsity.

“An individual who really loves kids and loves kids I’d say past good sense,” Justice continued. “He devoted his life to training. What a job he has carried out. We’ll miss him.”