MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee advanced tweaked versions of two Senate bills on Friday – one regarding the U.S. motto and one enabling the teaching of Intelligent Design. The delegates also moved a House bill to crack down on drunk bus drivers. SB 152, as it came from the ...
KINGWOOD — Members of the Preston County Board of Education voted to opt back into the McKinsey & Company LLC opioid settlement. The decision was made after receiving a memorandum from attorney Ben Bailey of Bailey Glasser LLP, concerning school boards and the opioid litigation updates. Bailey previously said school boards that opt out may be able to negotiate with McKinsey for more funds from the settlement. The Preston BOE voted to opt out and see if that happened. The funds would be used in a trust that would be available to West Virginia counties to apply for as ...
A letter from Monongalia County Schools will be going out in the next couple of weeks or so, requesting admission to an exclusive, critical club in the region. The district wants to be part of the ongoing discussion involving Region 4 governmental representatives over the disbursement of ...
CHARLESTON — College students from West Virginia and Marshall universities testified about experiences with food insecurity in support of a bill called the “Hunger Free Campus Act,” and most members of the Senate Education Committee voted to advance the bill. Sen. Mike Azinger, R-Wood, followed up the students’ remarks, though, by thanking them for their comments and then called the bill “nanny state stuff.” “My first year in college, I lost 20 pounds,” Azinger said before casting a no vote. “I didn’t eat. I didn’t have food all the time. I went to Bible ...
ALEX, the artificially intelligent medical mannequin and current star of Monongalia County Schools’ MedEd program, can do a lot of things. Board of Education members discovered that during their meeting Tuesday night. For the benefit of aspiring medical techs, nurses and physicians enrolled in MedEd, ALEX can present – as a real-life patient in the emergency room would – with a bevy of medical maladies. He can be a small child with big case of the flu.He can be a middle-aged woman, complaining of back pain and breathing issues. Or, an elderly grandfather in the ...
Close to 45,000 high school students in West Virginia last year took career technical education courses as part of their day-to-day. More than 7,000 were graduates from such programs. And 30,786 students in grades 6-8 — that’s 56% of that population — were enrolled in a career ...
