Not without a fight. The first round of Hope scholarship dollars started going out across West Virginia last week, capping a pugilistic history that saw the school choice voucher enacted, overturned and then reinstated — after its backers took it to the state Supreme ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate Education Committee quickly passed on Tuesday bills dealing with child sexual abuse and child sexual violence prevention. SB 187 creates a new felony for any public or private school teacher, principal, counselor, coach, or other employee to engage in sexual ...
Cue announcer: “This is … ‘Mohigan Idol.’ ” OK, so Ryan Seacrest won’t be on the stage of the Metropolitan Theatre next month to emcee, but the Hollywood-styled glamour and glitz of the talent show for a good cause will still commence as it has since 2011, organizers say. That was the year the then-student council of MHS had a charitable idea to play off the popularity of “American Idol,” the network television juggernaut. “We can raise money for the hospital,” the budding policymakers said. As in, WVU Medicine Children’s. To date, the talent show ...
MORGANTOWN — State senators are once again considering a bill to help some small, financially struggling county school systems by setting a base enrollment figure for their school aid formula dollars. SB 41 says that beginning in the 2023-24 school year, no county's net enrollment will ...
Morgantown High School is one of 300 schools across the country named a finalist in the Solve for Tomorrow competition, sponsored annually by Samsung Electronics America. Samsung launched the competition in 2010 as a way to encourage creative thinking and problem-solving in society, using ...
Monongalia County Board of Education member Mike Kelly remembers his days as a student at University High School, when the building was located atop Price Street, overlooking WVU’s downtown campus. “I’d take my classes in the morning at University High, then I’d walk down the hill ...
