dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is plowing through bills as it heads to close of session midnight Saturday, but the Senate bill to require Holocaust education in the public schools […]
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Senate passes bills limiting cell phones in schools, plowing roads in Mon and Preston
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed bills launching a pilot project to plow secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties, and to limit student cell phone use in […]
Senate passes House bill stripping some university board of governors members of voting rights
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A divided state Senate on Wednesday passed the House bill stripping the voting rights from certain members of university governing boards. The vote followed an unsuccessful effort […]
Senate committee advances bill to remove voting power from 4 WVU BOG members
MORGANTOWN – The House bill that would strip the voting rights from the two faculty representatives, the classified staff representative and the student body representative on the WVU Board of […]
Senate committee adds third option to bill for schools to put guards on campus
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers’ efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in their hallways. The […]
Teachers Ascend Program: Drop into W.Va., stay a while – teach a while
For years, the mantra of attracting people to the Mountain State for work went along the following lines.It’s a script, as it turns out, hasn’t really changed much – even […]
Senate passes Holocaust education, pharmacist prescription bills
dbeard@domininopost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed a Holocaust education bill and a pharmacist prescription bill and sent them to the House of Delegates. SB 54 is the […]
House of Delegates sends Mon-Preston road plowing bill to Senate
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A bill to require the Division of Highways to contract for snow removal on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties barely squeaked out of the House […]
House Education kills bill to enable boards to fire school administrators
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A House bill to give county school boards – and indirectly, superintendents – more hiring and firing power fizzled in the Education Committee Monday afternoon. Current code […]
State Senate sends school Guardian bill to House; fate of rival bills remains uncertain
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate sent its bill to put contracted Guardians into public schools over to the House of Delegates on Thursday, but what will become of it […]
