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 ...
MORGANTOWN — Three more school-related bills passed out of the House of Delegates on Wednesday and head to the Senate. HB 5863 creates the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act. It says that starting next school year, school principals shall allow representatives of a patriotic ...
MORGANTOWN – A voting measure and a handful of bills dealing with students and students' healthcare cleared the House and Senate on Tuesday. HJR 21 proposes a constitutional amendment to add this to the section dealing with who is and is not allowed to vote (Article IV, 4-1): “nor ...
