Monongalia and Preston county schools received devastating financial news this past week. Mon County is expected to lose 350 students to charter schools, many of them to the new in-person charter, while Preston will likely lose 44 — to the tune of $1.9 million and $272,000 ...
Don’t let those dollar signs with all those zeros attached fool you, Eddie Campbell Jr. said. Campbell is superintendent of Monongalia County Schools, and his district just approved an operating budget of $145 million for the 2022-23 fiscal year. That ledger, however, isn’t entirely ...
It’s doing what the district does anyway, Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said Thursday — just more of it. He was referring to this week’s stepped-up police patrols around Mon’s schools, which were instituted in response to a shooting at an elementary school in ...
COVID cases in Mon Schools are still clocking in at all-time pandemic lows, according to the most-recent numbers posted by the district. A total of nine positive cases were reported among students across the district from April 22-28, and just two staffers presented with positive diagnoses ...
Sometimes, you just have to sing your own praises. Unless you’d rather have South Middle School do it for you. Monongalia County’s Board of Education opted for the above two evenings ago at the school on Mississippi Street. The BOE convened in the school auditorium Tuesday night ...
Monongalia County school board members got to do something during their meeting Tuesday night that hasn’t always been possible over the past three years: They got to look ahead. With the tide of the pandemic rolling back out — for now— they discussed the first day of school for the ...