dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers' efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in their hallways. The committee took up and approved a new version of HB 2164, which was already a hybrid of ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee sailed through two school safety bills Tuesday morning. One resurrects the West Virginia Guardian Program. The other would require public schools to install a panic alarm system. SB 450 is the Guardian bill. It ...
Monongalia County Schools just warmed up its safety net for every student, in every classroom, in the district. Four new safety officers were recently hired – and their job description is a notch above those of the district’s current cadre of school resource officers, who have long ...
No one paid the weapons detector any mind on a recent, bustling mid-weekday at Morgantown High School. Students and teachers, already in the building, walked by the gray sentinel’s twin posts without looking over. The devices that are now also in place at University High and ...
KINGWOOD — The risk of a school shooting is ever present. The recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 students and two teachers were murdered, only reiterates the need for enhanced school safety measures in his mind, incoming Preston County Schools Superintendent Brad Martin said at ...
It didn’t take long for Rob Cunningham to cut to the heart of the matter Tuesday afternoon in Charleston. Forty-eight hours after a mass shooting last month at an elementary school in rural Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead, Cunningham was tasked with a tall order from ...