More training. More access. More accountability. Saying the above out loud only takes about three seconds. However, it’s taken Christina Smith a decade to get that trio of directives successfully […]
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Mon Schools releases its report on electric bus plan
More than 32,000 miles in 18 counties, with nary a hitch. The above means the BEAST didn’t do bad at all on West Virginia’s challenging two-lanes last November. That’s BEAST, […]
No COVID breakouts (so far) in Mon Schools this year, district says
Eddie Campbell Jr., superintendent of Monongalia County Schools, said last week there are two things he enjoys not having to do this fall – as his district turns to calendar […]
SBA director: Current square-footage rate for new school construction isn’t enough
Next month, 28 public school districts from across West Virginia will present their needs projects to the state School Building Authority. The SBA is the agency that doles out the […]
Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity shutters its ‘ReStore’ outlet in Sabraton — as it looks forward to more home-builds
Close one door – open three more. Discontinuing the ReStore for Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity wasn’t an easy decision, said Elaine Holstine McVay, the executive director of the organization […]
‘George’s legacy is always going to be in bloom around here’
Frank Scafella gets a charge whenever he looks out the window to regard those yellow flowers in his side yard. “I still don’t know what the heck they are,” the […]
UHS baseball complex now on deck
Build it, and they will come. So goes the (paraphrased) quote from “Field of Dreams,” the 1989 mystical movie about the Iowa farmer who decides to build a baseball diamond […]
Meet Nevelyn Flemming: Mon Schools’ first-ever Student of the Month
Nevelyn Flemming isn’t one to brag, but she is a pretty big deal in Monongalia County’s school district these days. That’s because the third-grader at Suncrest Elementary is the only […]
UHS student to march in Macy’s Thanksgiving parade
Gabby Chico spends her days marching toward goals. Just wait until you see her on Thanksgiving Day. That’s getting a little bit ahead of the narrative, though, so we’ll march […]
West Virginia Academy is a semifinalist for the $1M Yass Prize, which annually awards education innovation across the country
Two years ago, a snarl of legal challenges was making it appear more than likely that the West Virginia Academy, then planned as the Mountain State’s first-ever charter school, wasn’t […]
