Like most moms, Pamela Hines spools out her waking hours happily, and busily, entrenched in the campaign of simply being there for her kids. Daycare and school. Homework, mealtime and […]
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Are charter schools faring any better in math and reading?
Voters go to the polls this Tuesday for the Mountain State’s general election, and while charter schools aren’t on the ballot by name, they are most definitely part of the […]
It’s electric: The BEAST begins its pilot run Wednesday for Mon schools
For a vehicle that doesn’t make much of a sound when it moves, the BEAST was generating a fair amount of noise Tuesday afternoon. It came in the form of […]
Mon Schools forced to cancel routes for Monday due to driver no-shows: Meanwhile, electric bus set to transport students in pilot run
Tony Harris says he’ll be a little more charged up Tuesday than he was the day before. “It’s been interesting,” the transportation director for Monongalia County Schools said, describing the […]
Dyslexic man who speaks multiple languages: ‘Your brain just works differently’
Plunk Bartley Mayhorn down anywhere in the world – then watch and listen. It’s quite likely the Morgantown man will be able to launch into a conversation – and not […]
Gourds go long: WVU Pumpkin Drop a smashing success
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Colin Silvas. Or it was. “Yeah, tell me about it,” he lamented Friday morning at the base of the Engineering Sciences Building on WVU’s Evansdale campus. […]
Mountaineer Homeschool Hub awarded $100K for learning enrichment
Twelve years later, and this homeschooling gig is working out. That was when Angie Channell decided to take her son, who is now a WVU freshman, out of elementary school […]
Talerico on low test scores: ‘Our kids need to be in school’
Those low marks on math and reading tests netted earlier this year by the nation’s public school students didn’t really surprise Donna Talerico, Monongalia’s deputy schools superintendent said. School districts […]
Keeping it current: Electric bus will begin hauling Mon students next week for pilot program
The wheels on the bus go round and round – and sometimes, the engines that make them do that are powered by electricity. That’s what happens next week in Monongalia […]
Real court, real people: W.Va. Supreme Court justices talk to Morgantown High class
Steve Blinco didn’t hold anything back in his cross-examination Tuesday morning. In front of the room, John Hutchinson and Haley Bunn, both under personal oath to deliver information, shifted a […]
