FAIRMONT – For a lot of public school districts, it’s never too early to talk about an education levy. However, it can sometimes be too late. Which is why Scott Reider made an appearance at Monday’s meeting of the Marion County Board of Education in Fairmont. Reider is the ...
FAIRMONT – As it turns out, Donna Heston won’t be cleaning out her desk at the end of June after all. Meeting in special session Thursday afternoon, the Marion County Board of Education reversed its earlier decision to oust the superintendent – granting a 1-year extension to her ...
FAIRMONT – A nationwide survey that went out in the fall of 2023 was the shot heard 'round the campus, as it were. Parents weren’t shy about voicing their fears in the outreach on school safety fronted then by EdChoice, the nonprofit education advocacy group. A total of 80% of the ...
FAIRMONT – Marion County Board of Education President George Boyles said last week it was “time to move on,” after the 3-2 vote and lengthy discussion earlier to oust Donna Heston, the district’s current superintendent of schools. Moving on for the BOE now means hitting the fast ...
FAIRMONT – It wasn’t a toast, but Donna Heston did lift a glass – of sorts – during Monday’s meeting of the Marion County Board of Education. Make that ballistics glass. Heston, Marion’s superintendent of schools, said the first of the fortified material is going out in ...
FAIRMONT – That’s the thing about mold. It comes back. Marion County Schools Superintendent Donna Heston delivered that biology lesson, most basic, to Board of Education members earlier this week. That is, where there’s high humidity, there just might be mold. And where ...