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Mon Schools still dealing with bomb cyclone aftermath

For Monongalia County Schools, it’s the (unwanted) gift that keeps on giving. The unprecedented “bomb cyclone” over the holidays, that is. More than half of the buildings in the district sustained damage to some degree in the quick-moving arctic blast that caused temperatures to ...

Campbell: Hope scholarship amendment won’t affect Mon Schools

The first reading of Policy 2371 proceeded without fanfare during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education. That’s because it was a formality. Policy 2371 will be an on-the-record rehash of all the statewide particulars related to the Hope Scholarship, and ...

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 ...