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 ...
Upshur County’s school district is inching its way back to compliance — a year after the state took over its operations following complaints that the district mismanaged federal COVID monies. During the height of the pandemic, the district had received $16 million in federal funds, ...
Collapsed lunch tables lined the cafeteria of Clay-Battelle’s freshly waxed floor in orderly aisles. The hum of fluorescent lighting buzzed ceaselessly and the expected routine of summer break and school maintenance began. But for Principal David Cottrell, there was something in the air. ...
I have known about climate change since I was very young. My parents and teachers would discuss the harmful effects of increased carbon emissions across the world: animals becoming endangered, the average temperature of the earth increasing and strange weather patterns. The heartbreaking part, though, was that these effects were caused by humans. Today, I feel lucky that I was able to, as a child, enjoy the environment before it got too warm. This aspect of the world remained an integral part of my formal (through school) and informal (through my family members and ...
FAIRMONT — It’s the last part of Gov. Jim Justice’s earlier quote that was giving graduate student Taylor Tennant pause Monday on the campus of Fairmont State University.When Justice signed the Campus Carry bill into law, he parsed it down in his trademark folksy manner.“For crying out loud, the doors are wide open,” the governor said then, of the measure that now covers every public college and university in the Mountain State.Translation: Such spaces are indeed public. Which means accessibility to any and all – including those who may have the intent to commit violence and ...
