June 24th, 2023 by WCBC Radio

The West Virginia Board of Education appointed Michele Blatt as the state schools superintendent Friday after accepting the retirement of David Roach in fallout over a review of a county school system’s pandemic spending.

The board voted unanimously to accept the retirement of Roach, who had served just 10 months. It then met in private before voting to named Blatt as the third state schools superintendent since 2020 and the seventh in a dozen years.

Blatt joined the Department of Education in 2007 as a leadership development coordinator and became a deputy state superintendent in 2020.

She had more than 25 years of experience as a teacher and school principal.