Nearly 80% of parents responding to an annual back-to-school survey by a nonprofit, national advocacy group say they are worried about the possibility — and the inevitability, even — of gun violence in their child’s school this coming year. That’s one of the more-telling results of ...
Financially troubled Alderson Broaddus University had its authorization pulled Monday during an emergency meeting of the Higher Education Policy Commission, and state higher education officials prepared an order leading to its wind-down. Commissioners voted unanimously to revoke Alderson Broaddus’ authorization to confer degrees in the state effective this Dec. 31. The revocation means the institution is not permitted to enroll new students beginning this fall semester. However, seniors scheduled to graduate at the end of the fall term may return to complete their degrees on ...
Rosetta Le will move one office over at Suncrest Elementary for the start of the new year. Le had been serving in the top leadership role there on an interim basis since April. That’s when Suncrest Elementary’s then-principal Doug Gaither took a job out of state and Le, then an ...
Before he became a program director with the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative, Canyon Lohnas taught kindergarten and first grade back home in Maryland. Which is why last week he posed a question, paused for the slightest of seconds, laughed — and then answered it ...
The Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place was campaign headquarters this week in an ongoing war on intellect that was mainly started by COVID-19. Said war is for the benefit of young minds in classrooms. Young minds trying to get locked back onto reading and math, ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — State Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Rob Cunningham says West Virginia’s public schools will be much safer when students and staff return next month thanks to Gov. Jim Justice’s School Safety Initiative. Part of the plan, launched in October 2022, includes the hiring of seven school safety officers to be placed in regions across the state. Cunningham said the 2023-24 school year will be the first full year the officers will be making themselves known in schools. “Our safety officers are making sure everyone knows what to do and so ...
