Students learn how West Virginia’s government works Preston County students and teachers from Terra Alta/East Preston, Aurora, West Preston and South Preston returned from a three-day learning experience in Charleston with the Youth Leadership Association’s 8th Grade Youth & ...
Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia Inc. (YCF) awarded 106 scholarships totaling $293,900 for the 2024-2025 academic year. Applications were evaluated by scholarship committees with over 100 volunteers from across north-central West Virginia. YCF currently manages over 40 scholarship funds. New scholarship endowments may be established with a minimum donation of $20,000, which donors may pledge over three years. The principal is invested, and the earnings provide scholarship dollars — forever. Donors may suggest award criteria and choose a ...
SOUTH CHARLESTON — The state Higher Education Policy Commission approved a doubling of the maximum award for the West Virginia Higher Education Grant at the commission’s meeting Friday held in South Charleston. The maximum award for the needs-based grant goes from $3,400 to $6,800. State Higher Education Chancellor Dr. Sarah Armstrong Tucker said the increase was made possible by Gov. Jim Justice proposing and the legislature allocating an additional $40 million to the program in last month’s special session because of the failed rollout of the changes to the free federal ...
MORGANTOWN — A reconfigured plan to open a charter school in the former Monongalia County Schools central office building at 13 South High Street will soon be before the Morgantown Planning Commission. Abdul Tarabishy is one three individuals who make up AST Morgantown Properties, the ...
The executive director of the board overseeing charter schools in the state today described concluding an investigation of practices at West Virginia Academy, one of the state’s original charter schools in Morgantown. The review and some corrective actions generally focused on whether West Virginia Academy has appropriate procedures in place to handle situations as they come up — and whether the charter school operates in an open enough manner. “These corrective actions and the findings in these reports, what they’re intended to do is strengthen the foundation of the ...
Gabrielle Chico, a recent University High School graduate and completer at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center, is among 30 students from 19 counties across the state to receive a scholarship boosting their ongoing goals in career technical education. Chico last week was named ...
