In a display of gratitude and community spirit, students from a local middle school, led by Ms. Porter and Mrs. Schap, have taken a creative step to show their appreciation for the first responders of Monongalia County. In a collaborative effort, Selena Porter, math transition support ...
A board that oversees charter schools in West Virginia described significant enrollment growth, although much of it has taken place in virtual formats. Overall enrollment in five charter schools now stands at 2,270 students. That is up from 1,248 students last year. “So that is not quite double but more than a 1,000-student growth; much of this growth driven by the two virtual schools,” said James Paul, executive director of the West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board. Enrollment for individual schools is: West Virginia Virtual Academy: 936 Virtual Prep ...
What do you do, when you’re the Mountain State’s first brick-and-mortar charter school, going into your third year of operation, and you were just recognized with an award widely regarded as the “Pulitzer Prize” of education? You work that much harder, John Treu, of Morgantown’s ...
Morgantown High and University High schools are both state finalists in a national contest designed to get students thinking about how technology can ease societal woes. The two local schools are among the 300 middle schools and high schools across the nation to make the cut in “Solve for Tomorrow,” which is annually hosted by Samsung Electronics America. Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as a way to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in society, using the components of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). MHS was also a national finalist ...
Code me home, country roads. Students from Mylan Park Elementary were among a select group in Charleston on Monday. They joined their counterparts from seven other schools across the state for “Country Roads Codes Day at the Capitol,” a computer and robotics event designed to ...
Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly used a school bus analogy to deliver a facts-of-life message from the board to area lawmakers last week. Say there are 70 students in that bus, Kelly’s analogy went, when it rolls up to the front of a school. Thirty students ...
