When does the exercise of authority become an abuse of power? When the state Board of Education stomps down on a county Board of Education that doesn’t want to send kids to school in the middle of a pandemic, Dale Lee said. Lee, who is president of the West Virginia Education ...
Members of Monongalia County’s Board of Education were reminded of something they already knew Tuesday night: That pandemic math doesn’t grade on curve. Particularly when to comes to the quarantining, which usually ensues any time a student, teacher or other staffer presents with a ...
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Monongalia County students will stay on remote learning through Feb. 12. That was the call of the county BOE on Tuesday night, which voted unanimously for that state, saying COVID-19 is simply too unpredictable to merit a safe return to class. “We all want our kids back in school,” ...
A look back at pivotal moments in the pandemic In March, just days after the 2020 legislative session ended, Gov. Jim Justice began his regular COVID-19 briefings, featuring his COVID response leadership team. Justice and his leadership team actually began talks and taking measures in ...
Be it an individual, a family, a business, an agency, a city, county, state or nation, 2020 can essentially be summed up in eight characters, COVID-19. And while that’s certainly true for Monongalia County, there was some other stuff that happened, too. But we might as ...