EDITORIAL

Lecture on education from a tainted source

West Virginia Board of Education president Gayle Manchin, wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says parents should be seeking MORE school days instead of complaining about the 180-day minimum. Excessive snow days force schools to stay open into June and attendance drops sharply when it does.

This is the mom whose daughter, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch, was given a master’s degree in 2008 that she didn’t earn from WVU because the university faked courses and grades to make it happen to please then-Governor Manchin.

WVU president Mike Garrison and three others resigned because it happened on their watch and the master’s degree was rescinded after public outrage hit the fan.

Heather attended WVU in 1998 but did not earn enough credits.

Later, Mylan CEO Heather purchased Abbott Laboratories' non-U.S. generic pharmaceuticals division for $5.3 billion, moved Abbott’s generic business to a new company headquartered in the Netherlands on paper and Mylan becomes a “foreign” company, an inversion tactic on paper only that will cut Mylan’s tax rate in half in five years, leaving U.S. taxpayers to make up the difference.

Now, THAT is an education lesson for West Virginia taxpayers.

Maybe WVU should re-consider slapping the Milan name on Mountaineer Field.