Today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, is “WV School Service Personnel Day.”

Our service personnel play an important role in the education system by serving meals, transporting children safely, assisting teachers in the classroom, maintaining clean buildings and grounds and providing administrative services. 

For the past eleven years, the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association (WVSSPA) has had the following proclamation signed by the governor:

Whereas, school service personnel are involved in nearly every aspect of education by maintaining buildings and grounds, Preparing and serving meals, keeping school facilities clean and orderly, and assisting in the classroom, as well as providing administrative support functions, safe transportation, and many other specialized services; and

Whereas, school service personnel are instrumental in West Virginia’s responsibility to educate all students; and

Whereas, these dedicated individuals serve the children of West Virginia in our public education system and have an important role of non-instructional service to the educational system; and

Whereas, it is fitting we recognize the outstanding work these individuals do for this state, their communities, and the students enrolled in West Virginia schools.

Now, Therefore, Be it Resolved that we proclaim September 24, 2026 as: West Virginia School Service Personnel Day.