Your Community Foundation of North Central West Virginia is going back to school. The nonprofit, outreach organization is now offering an opportunity for educator “mini-grants” of up to $750 — which will be awarded to teachers in public schools across Monongalia, Preston, Marion, ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — State Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Rob Cunningham says West Virginia’s public schools will be much safer when students and staff return next month thanks to Gov. Jim Justice’s School Safety Initiative. Part of the plan, launched in October ...
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a high school football coach who led his team in Christian prayer at the end of games had a First Amendment right to use the public school system to promote his religion, critics warned that this was a foot in the door to more ...
by John M. Crisp I like public schools for the same reason that William Faulkner hated the Post Office. Before Faulkner became the great Southern novelist, he hired on as the postmaster at the University of Mississippi. By all accounts he was an indifferent postmaster, opening ...
Tax cuts a mistake when roads are a mess I vehemently disagree with the ongoing cuts to various taxes across our state. Going through with these changes is akin to buying expensive paint to dress up a condemned house. Legislators claim the state budget has a surplus; in ...
Last week, West Virginia University announced its Teachers Ascend into West Virginia program. Which is exactly what it sounds like: Ascend, but this time geared specifically toward teachers — minus the remote work, or so we assume. WVU Today (DP-02-20-23) quotes Donna Hoylman Peduto: ...