Members of the Preston County Board of Education voted 3-1 to place the excess levy on the General Election ballot in November. The levy was defeated during the May Primary Election. “I’m torn in this,” board member Michael Hovatter said. “I’ve supported ...
Mountaineers, by literal definition, have to keep climbing. Metaphorically, though, planting a flag at the top of the peak still doesn’t guarantee against an avalanche below. That contradiction bore out in a study released Monday morning by WalletHub, a personal finance company that ...
Humans have tried to use tools to decrease the amount of physical labor we do for most of the time we’ve been a species on this planet. This includes building tools to ease gardening, creating pulleys and inventing the wheel. And as things have become more digital, we have turned to machines to decrease the amount of manual labor we have to go through. Automation is using technology, with lessened human involvement, to complete some sort of action. This leads to increased efficiency and higher accuracy (due to the lack of human error). Basic automation is the automation ...
Preston County’s school district is among the Mountain State recipients sharing in a federal grant for after-school programming. The award is from the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers organization, named in honor of the New York state lawmaker known in part for her ...
Don Robinette does a lot of yelling at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center during the course of the academic year. Not that the welding instructor is angry, mind you. It’s just that learning gets a little loud in his classroom — what with all those clangs, rattles and ...
The board that oversees charter schools in West Virginia is underscoring the need to track student truancy. Charter schools receive financial support from the state’s public education system and are given greater operational latitude in exchange for the possibility of losing their right to operate if they fail. So West Virginia’s charter schools are subject to the same attendance policies as the other public schools in the state. After a student is unexcused for three days, schools are required to make meaningful contact with the student’s parent or guardian to understand ...
