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Promise to make PROMISE award

Scholarship for ‘top-achieving’ has set its deadline High school seniors: This afternoon, between the first helping of turkey and the last piece of pumpkin pie, make yourself this holiday note.  You and your family have until March 1 to officially give thanks for the PROMISE scholarship. That’s the word from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and its interim chancellor, Sarah Armstrong Tucker, who announced the application deadline last week. The scholarship is administered across the state’s 55 counties. Top-achieving students who qualify ...

Dial-a-story puts jokes, fun tales at fingertips

Morgantown Library unveils phone line story time program by Olivia Murrayomurray@dominionpost.com The Morgantown Public Library launched a new program last month that provides consumers with entertainment over the phone. The library now has an always available phone number that ...

WVU, West Virginia Wesleyan College partner

WVU Today West Virginia University doctoral candidates will have a new opportunity to gain teaching experience at the college level through a new partnership with West Virginia Wesleyan College starting in January 2021. A new Memorandum of Understanding between WVU and West Virginia Wesleyan College establishes a program, known as the Minority Doctoral Fellows Program, through which WVU’s qualified doctoral candidates will be able to teach as part-time adjunct instructors at Wesleyan in Buckhannon. The MOU was signed by  WVU President Gordon Gee and WVWC President Joel ...

Mon BOE discusses holidays, charter school proposal

Will snow days become a casualty of COVID-19? Likely so,  Eddie Campbell Jr. said Tuesday night.Campbell, Mon’s superintendent of schools, told Board of Education members that students will work remotely Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week in the lead-up to Thanksgiving.And in the week following the holiday, they’ll again do distance-learning from home.That will be in accordance with Gov. Jim Justice’s mission to  quell any additional exposures to the coronavirus.Students would normally have all of Thanksgiving week off, the superintendent said.However, with ...

WVEA: There should be remote learning through end of year

The hymn most associated with next week’s Thanksgiving holiday begins with the words, “We gather together.” And that’s what has Dale Lee of the West Virginia Education Association worried. Lee, who is president of the teacher union, said Monday that Gov. Jim Justice needs to carry his distance-learning call for the state’s public and private schools through the end of the year. With a renewed roiling of the pandemic in the Mountain State, the union president said, it’s the only way. The governor last week said schools would go remote through Dec. 2, after ...

Schools see fewer students in 2020

Enrollment drops as the coronavirus plagues districts Even if a coronavirus vaccine hits the market soon, the West Virginia Department of Education still might need a shot in the arm by state lawmakers to avoid a potential $42.7 million shortfall by this time next year. That’s because ...