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New bill would open up Hope Scholarships to non-public students

All non-public students in West Virginia schools would be eligible for the Hope Scholarship under a bill advanced by the House Education Committee. West Virginia’s law is already one of the most wide open in the country because eligibility in most other states with similar programs is more narrowly defined. This bill would further broaden eligibility. Right now, the scholarship is available only to students leaving the public school system or for kindergarten-aged students whose families are opting out of sending them to public schools in the first place. This would open ...

House Judiciary approves campus carry bill, sends it to full House

MORGANTOWN – The campus carry bill is on its way to the House floor and expected to pass there after clearing House Judiciary in a voice vote on Wednesday afternoon. SB 10, the Campus Self Defense Act, sets the parameters for people with concealed handgun permits to carry on public ...

Mon Schools to partner with Pierpont on dual-degree offering

Traditionally, more than half of Monongalia County’s high school seniors go on to college after graduation. In a place on the map where a low college-going rate is also a tradition, that’s a given — in that Mon boasts one of the higher-performing public districts in West Virginia, ...

House public hearing on campus carry bill draws 38 opponents, 2 supporters

MORGANTOWN — The House Judiciary Committee's Wednesday morning public hearing on the campus carry bill drew 40 people; 38 of whom opposed it. Most of the opponents to SB 10 were university students, faculty and administrators. Mary Ellen O'Farrell, speaking on her own behalf, summed ...

Morgantown high schoolers named finalists in MIT tech competition

The collapse of a fully occupied condominium in Florida two years ago. The major earthquake that shook parts of Syria and Turkey two weeks ago. No matter how coordinated rescue efforts are at such disaster sites, there’s still lot of chaos involved, as volunteers literally dig through rubble with their hands in the desperate search for survivors. Two Morgantown high school students want to mechanize such rescue and recovery efforts in the future — and they just got some academic and financial help from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along the way. Anna Brusoe, ...

Third Grade Success Act, other education bills passed in Senate and House

MORGANTOWN — The state Senate's Third Grade Success Act topped a list of education- and child-related bills passed in the Senate and House on Tuesday. SB 274 is the Success Act. Its overarching purpose is to develop a statewide, multi-tiered approach to reading and math ...