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 ...
MORGANTOWN — The Senate and House passed a couple handfuls of bills on Monday, among them one for child cyber safety, one for highway safety and one concerning carbon sequestration to pave the way for economic development projects. SB 466 creates the Safety While Accessing Technology ...
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission has ballot language for the renewal of four excess levies and a new bond levy for the Monongalia County Board of Education slated to be part of the May 14 primary election. Were all five to pass, it would represent a total of 15.1 cents ...
MORGANTOWN — Senate and House education committees approved a Hope Scholarship bill and a patriotic societies bill without debate on Wednesday and sent them on to their respective destinations. Senate School Choice merged two Hope Scholarship bills into one: SB 598. Among its ...
Call it a Renaissance road trip. “We’re planning to take as many teachers as we can get on the charter bus,” Mon Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said during Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting. He’s referring to a scheduled Feb. 12 excursion to Leesburg, ...
Only about 5.5% of teachers responding to a state Department of Education survey described high parent involvement at their schools. That was one of the big takeaways as state Superintendent Michele Blatt described the survey results before the Senate Education Committee today. The result about parental involvement sparked a discussion, with comments by Senator Jay Taylor, R-Taylor. “It’s almost student and parent apathy. I don’t know how we address that. It’s almost a cultural issue,” Taylor said. Blatt agreed. “It is a matter of no appreciation of the ...
