A total of 28% of Monongalia County’s high school seniors qualified for West Virginia’s coveted Promise Scholarship last year, giving Mon’s public district tops in the state. The district also outpaced the state in proficiency scores in reading and math during that same time ...
High school can be bad enough on a good day — and for Aaron Reedy, there were no good days back then. In fact, it was all he could do to make it through the main hallway, he told members of the Monongalia County Board of Education on Tuesday night. “I was relentlessly bullied,” ...
Put Tony Harris behind a big steering wheel, and you’ve got a happy man. That, he did for 20 years as a school bus driver in Preston County. Harris navigated roads where the pavement appeared to disappear, once one finally crested the top, with lanes barely wide enough for a ...
Last week’s news on the college-going rate for high school seniors from the Class of 2021 in West Virginia didn’t surprise Donna Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County schools. It does, however, make her want to work harder for the Class of 2022, as it readies to go ...
Now that school is back in session and football is again upon the land, will the weapons detectors purchased earlier by Monongalia County’s Board of Education be showing up at home games here anytime soon? Most likely, Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said. However, he said, they ...
Amendment 2 is going to generate lots of math homework — anywhere from $17 million to $18 million a year, in fact — for the Monongalia County Board of Education if the proposed legislation passes in November. Mark Musick told BOE members that in so many words Tuesday night. Musick ...