Those Bluebird buses are back on the road this morning in Monongalia County. Today is the first day of school in Mon, with 11,470 students, according to the most-recent enrollment numbers from the district, ready to report to their classes for the start of the 2022-23 academic ...
West Virginia’s Supreme Court has taken over consideration of whether a scholarship for students leaving the public school system violates the state constitution. A majority of justices rejected a motion to stay a lower court’s decision to halt the Hope Scholarship, but the Supreme Court did agree to consider the issue swiftly. Justices set oral arguments for Oct. 4. The issue had been the first big case before West Virginia’s new intermediate court of appeals. Now the Supreme Court will hear the appeal instead. Those decisions were expressed in an order released Thursday ...
The first day of school is less than a week out, and Lauren Shen, it could be said, already has the angles down. Most of them, anyway. The 16-year-old incoming junior at Morgantown High still isn’t exactly sure what she’ll be doing down the road in college. “I know it will have ...
On his way to becoming an NFL legend, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris used to carry the ball for the Penn State Nittany Lions. Which used to have the WVU Mountaineers on its regular schedule. Which — it doesn’t really need to be said, if you were there — also ...
A few areas in Star City got a little sprucing up Thursday afternoon thanks to a little help from a group of incoming freshmen at West Virginia University. “We are a group of Mountaineers from WVU who are spending their afternoon doing some service,” Melissa Calabrese, with the WVU ...
COVID doesn’t grade on a curve. West Virginia State Board of Education President Paul Hardesty found that out Wednesday in Charleston, as he and his board colleagues convened for their August meeting. “We’ve got work to do,” he said. He was referring to the most-recent ...
