To date, 650 children are registered for pre-kindergarten in Monongalia County’s school district for this coming year. Another 850 have been signed up for kindergarten by their parents. Which just might be the best inoculation of all for a district still trying to find its true north ...
Those rumbles you heard during Tuesday's meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education were a good thing. BOE members and school administrators discussed particulars of the sprawling “Summer Avalanche” learning enrichment program which will run July 6-29 across the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Last November’s call by the Monongalia County Board of Education to reject the application of what would have been the first charter school in West Virginia was upheld Tuesday by the state Supreme Court. The goal was to eventually grow the West Virginia Academy into a K-12 ...
Everybody knew it was coming, and when it did, the only thing to do was laugh — or go all deadpan, as Emma Williams did. “This is extremely fitting for the Class of 2020,” the then-University High School senior said with nary a smile, as the rain pocked her mortarboard, and those of ...
With the bad rap that school lunches get, it’s easy to forget that school cooks are just that — cooks. And when they aren’t limited to a restricted and approved menu, they can create some truly delicious dishes. Monongalia County Schools’ cooks had a chance to flex their culinary ...
Today is the last day to register for Summer Avalanche 2021, the academic enrichment program for Monongalia County students which hits this summer. Organizers say the idea is the pile on the learning fun for that segment of the local population left idle during the school break because of ...