CHARLESTON - A lawsuit filed on behalf of Lincoln County families to reform West Virginia's complicated school aid formula could be delayed until after the 2027 legislation session, providing state officials time to develop a fix. Respondents in a lawsuit filed in September by the ACLU of ...
MORGANTOWN – From cookie dough to cardiac arrest, Aaliyah Conley had a pretty full morning Friday at South Middle School. “Yeah, I really like the hands-on stuff,” said the seventh-grader at the school on East Parkway Drive. Hands-on, it was. Aaliyah was among scores of ...
KINGWOOD – Continued decline in student enrollment was once again a topic at this week's Board of Education meeting. “In assessing our initial enrollment submission to the WVDE, it appears that enrollment will again be down by approximately 143 students with 8 of 9 schools seeing ...
FAIRMONT – Marion Schools Superintendent Donna Heston told Board of Education members what they already knew last week. That the district, she said, can’t keep operating at its current levels in the face of declining enrollment. “This is the first time Marion County lost over 300 ...
FAIRMONT – A series of allegedly explicit videos sent over the summer led to the child pornography arrest of Marion County teacher Michael Joseph Carpenter, court documents show. Carpenter, 43, the choir director of East Fairmont High School, was taken into custody at the school Tuesday ...
FAIRMONT – Michael Joseph Carpenter, the East Fairmont High School choir director charged with possessing child pornography, remained lodged in North Central Regional Jail on Wednesday following his arrest the day before. West Virginia State Police arrived at the school on Airport Road on ...
