LEESBURG, Va. — One student smiled and nodded hello to the tour group as she entered a glass-walled laboratory-styled space and began poring over a collection of charts, graphs and […]
Education
House Education approves bills on U.S. motto, Intelligent Design, drunk bus drivers
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee advanced tweaked versions of two Senate bills on Friday – one regarding the U.S. motto and one enabling the teaching of Intelligent Design. The […]
Preston BOE votes to opt back in opioid settlement
KINGWOOD — Members of the Preston County Board of Education voted to opt back into the McKinsey & Company LLC opioid settlement. The decision was made after receiving a memorandum […]
Mon Schools wants to be an official part of the opioid settlement talks
A letter from Monongalia County Schools will be going out in the next couple of weeks or so, requesting admission to an exclusive, critical club in the region. The district […]
College students testify for bill to alleviate food insecurity
CHARLESTON — College students from West Virginia and Marshall universities testified about experiences with food insecurity in support of a bill called the “Hunger Free Campus Act,” and most members […]
Mon BOE: ‘I don’t think it can be over-stressed, what we’re trying to do here’
ALEX, the artificially intelligent medical mannequin and current star of Monongalia County Schools’ MedEd program, can do a lot of things. Board of Education members discovered that during their meeting […]
February is Career Technology Education Month: Mon’s district is still working toward construction of the county’s first STEM school
Close to 45,000 high school students in West Virginia last year took career technical education courses as part of their day-to-day. More than 7,000 were graduates from such programs. And […]
House advances three school-related bills to Senate
MORGANTOWN — Three more school-related bills passed out of the House of Delegates on Wednesday and head to the Senate. HB 5863 creates the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools […]
House, Senate move measures dealing with voting and students
MORGANTOWN – A voting measure and a handful of bills dealing with students and students’ healthcare cleared the House and Senate on Tuesday. HJR 21 proposes a constitutional amendment to […]
Cyber safety, highway safety, carbon sequestration bills clear Senate and House
MORGANTOWN — The Senate and House passed a couple handfuls of bills on Monday, among them one for child cyber safety, one for highway safety and one concerning carbon sequestration […]
