A University High School teacher has been fired by the district. The decision to terminate Travis Wells, who taught science at the school on Bakers Ridge Road, came after a personnel hearing that lasted nearly four hours during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Monongalia County Board of ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — With just weeks until school starts, districts across West Virginia are left with dozens of unfilled teaching positions. West Virginia Education Association President Dale Lee predicts the problem will only get worse this fall. “I project those numbers to be over 1,500 this coming school year,” Lee said on Monday’s MetroNews “Talkline.” The state Department of Education reported 1,196 teacher vacancies statewide in 2021. Lee said the vacancies are widespread across all different grade levels. “Before we used to hear it’s ...
There have been more than a few times over these past several months that Brian Kiehl didn't know where his next meal was coming from. From the pandemic to supply-chain issues wrought by the war in Ukraine, the above was a literal concern for the nutrition director of Monongalia County ...
Cars from the future? Just like that, a new narrative in the education of the Mountain State’s young people took shape Tuesday morning in the parking lot of a nondescript, white-and-maroon brick building at 763 Chestnut Ridge Road. That’s when parents began rolling up with their ...
Mountaineers, by literal definition, have to keep climbing. Metaphorically, however, planting the flag in triumph at the peak can sometimes be akin to setting off an avalanche below. Translation: Don’t get too comfortable — because there’s always going to be something. Two ...
The way to a student’s heart is through his backpack. The way to his heart is knowing someone in the school system cares, really cares, about him and his family. That’s the philosophy of Donna Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district — and ...
