MORGANTOWN — The House Education Committee unanimously approved a bill aimed at beefing up the state's workforce by subsidizing high school students who want to enroll in career-path higher education courses. HB 2005 would establish a four-year pilot program for high school students to ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate on Friday approved a bill spelling out how the state would participate in an Article V Constitutional convention, and one requiring the state Board of Education to develop a program in dating-violence prevention and sexual-violence prevention. Article V ...
Framed as such, it could have been the premise of a science-fiction novel. The day Katherine Johnson and Anna Brusoe constructed a time-bridge, that is. Anna, we’ll get to. Johnson, meanwhile, was the famed “Hidden Figures” mathematician from West Virginia who computed the launch and splashdown trajectories for the Apollo 11 moon mission. Before that, according to NASA lore, she had garnered unconditional faith from no less than John Glenn, who wasn’t about to slip the surly bonds of Earth for his Mercury mission — until Johnson assured him that, yes, the numbers ...
MORGANTOWN — Three university presidents have joined to oppose the campus carry legislation working its way through the state Senate. Ericke Cage of West Virginia State University, Kendra Boggess of Concord University and Mary Hendrix of Shepherd University sent a joint letter to the ...
MORGANTOWN — Enthusiasm abounded as the Senate Education Committee advanced what they called a “transformational” bill to improve the reading and math skills of the state's K-3 students. The emotion was evident but several senators also commented that they were voting ...
In 2015 in West Virginia, some 600 technically non-certified teachers were in front of public school classrooms. That number has now more than doubled, with 1,544 such educators doling out the lessons for the next generation of students coming up. The “technical” part comes down to ...
