WEST VIRGINIA – The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind have met complications involving not meeting federal and state standards. The current facilities in the school were built in 1938 and are now considered to be a risk to its students.

The school is unable to find sufficient funds to pay for the structure changes. According to school superintendent Lynn Boyer, “finding an entity to pay for a campus overhaul isn’t easy.” More than $20 million in funds will be needed for the school to update it current facilities to meet federal and state standards.

Boyer returned to the State Building Authority on March 18 to ask for funding reducing to reduce the $20 million proposal to $8 million. The SBA will not give the school any additional funds, due to approving a $200,000 project last December to replace HVAC units and roofing. The school is hoping to find funds to provide access to the more than 145 state students and more than 80 students who actually live on the campus.