MORGANTOWN — You probably wouldn’t bat an eye at hearing a Monongalia County Commissioner banging the drum for the county park system. You might bat an eye, however, at a county commissioner literally banging a drum in one of the county’s parks. Both were on offer Thursday during ...
By third grade, you’re no longer learning to read. You’re reading to learn. Provided you don’t have dyslexia. If you do, forget that: you’re just trying to make it through the day. Dyslexia keeps kids from getting a true read on their learning potential. Words can appear ...
A majority of West Virginia Supreme Court justices dissolved an injunction against a scholarship for students leaving the public school system. The Hope Scholarship was being challenged over whether it violates the state constitution’s guarantee of a “thorough and efficient” education system. Kanawha Circuit Judge Joanna Tabit earlier ordered an injunction to halt distribution of the Hope Scholarship for about 3,000 students in its first year. The five-member state Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an appeal two days ago. Thursday, justices indicated they would enter ...
No one paid the weapons detector any mind on a recent, bustling mid-weekday at Morgantown High School. Students and teachers, already in the building, walked by the gray sentinel’s twin posts without looking over. The devices that are now also in place at University High and ...
Jennifer Reaves, the technology integration specialist at Mylan Park Elementary School, loves gridding it out for the newbies — or those who are otherwise intimidated by anything in the digital realm. “No, you didn’t break your laptop,” she’ll say. Also, “Yes, you will learn ...
Attorneys on both sides of the Hope Scholarship told the justices of the state Supreme Court 4,300 reasons why the legislation would work — or not work — for West Virginia schoolchildren. That number corresponds with the dollars that are in the State Aid Formula for public education ...
