MORGANTOWN — In June 2024, West Virginia Academy purchased 19.2 acres near Cheat Lake for $406,310. Now the state’s first charter school is looking to make that land the focal point of its academic and extracurricular activity. West Virginia Academy Ltd. is currently accepting ...
What do you do, when you’re the Mountain State’s first brick-and-mortar charter school, going into your third year of operation, and you were just recognized with an award widely regarded as the “Pulitzer Prize” of education? You work that much harder, John Treu, of Morgantown’s ...
The West Virginia Academy, the state’s first brick-and-mortar charter school, is expanding its Morgantown campus to Preston County. “This is a second campus and not a campus move,” board chairman John Treu said of the project set to begin in 2024. The academy, which just completed ...
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 ...
Will Monongalia County be home to West Virginia’s first charter school after all? That’s a definite maybe, John Treu said. Or even a solid, most likely. Treu, a WVU accounting professor and dean, is president of the school, christened the West Virginia Academy. Charter schools ...
KINGWOOD — The Preston County Board of Education tabled action until Nov. 30 on a proposed charter school that would serve Monongalia and part of Preston Counties. The action came after prolonged discussion on whether state policy on charter schools is being followed. West Virginia ...