Nevelyn Flemming isn’t one to brag, but she is a pretty big deal in Monongalia County’s school district these days. That’s because the third-grader at Suncrest Elementary is the only one of her kind right now. “At least we think so,” Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. ...
Law enforcement agencies and first responders from across the county were at University High School throughout the day Friday working on their strategies, tactics and communications in the event of an active-shooter situation. Students were not in school during the drill due to a professional learning and faculty senate day. Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer said they have been thinking about holding a county-wide training since last year, after several school shootings in other areas of the country. Palmer said his department contacted Adam Henkins, who is in charge of ...
Two years ago, a snarl of legal challenges was making it appear more than likely that the West Virginia Academy, then planned as the Mountain State’s first-ever charter school, wasn’t going to be able to open its doors to students after all. Today, the academy, which has a main building on Chestnut Ridge Road and is currently working on a branch campus in Masontown, Preston County, is in the running for a prestigious academic prize. The academy, which is now in its second year, is semifinalist for The Yass Prize. That’s a $1 million offering from the organization of the ...
MORGANTOWN — Henceforth it is required that all Morgantown residents under the age of 18 have access to free food. Further, Facetime phone calls shall remain legal in public spaces within the city and a new parking garage will not be constructed for Morgantown High ...
Jay Cole, Michelle Richards-Babb and Sheri Petitte may — or may not — know how to navigate their way out of the deep woods with just a compass and their wits. It’s also not immediately known if the area educators possess any of the other skill sets associated with the Boys Scouts of America. The three, however, do know their way around a classroom. And that’s why they’re receiving the organization’s loftiest merit badge, as it were, for the daily work they do in their field. That’s the Elbert K. Fretwell Outstanding Educator Award, named in honor of the ...
West Virginia’s still-new charter schools have been awarded a $12.3 million federal grant that supporters say will provide a major boost to grow the system. The five-year grant has come from the Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program under the U.S. Department of Education. Now, the West Virginia Professional Charter School Board says it can double the number of authorized charter schools and triple the number of students enrolled in them by 2018. Officials with the charter school board say the federal grant award — along with West Virginia’s ...
