MORGANTOWN -- An injunction by a Kanawah County judge blocking charter school approval could affect the way West Virginia Academy opens in Fall 2022. John Treu, West Virginia Academy president, said the ruling is not insignificant but it doesn’t stop them from doing what they have ...
Eddie Campbell Jr. may have stopped just short of saying it, during a meeting of the Monongalia County Board of Education last week. Metal detectors. Campbell is the superintendent of schools in the county, overseeing the 12,000 or so students publicly enrolled here. Nearly 40 ...
It’s certainly been an interesting week in the world of education here in Morgantown. Last Friday, an unsigned threat to “shoot up” Morgantown High School that day (Dec. 3) was scrawled on a boys’ bathroom wall — and then a second threat was found in a different bathroom, saying ...
by Nicholas Goldberg The idea of “abolishing” or “defunding” the police has always struck me as risky, to say the least, and not very well thought through. It has the potential to cause at least as many problems as it solves. So when some school districts actually decided ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice Tuesday announced the winners of 127 prizes through his Do it for Babydog: Round 3 vaccination sweepstakes. Wirt County Middle School/Primary Center won this week’s school grand prize of a $50,000 check. Justice and ...
by Fred L. Pincus The current controversy over critical race theory in the schools is nothing new. Thirty-seven years ago, I published an article with the headline “Book Banning and the New Right: Censorship in the Public Schools.” In the introduction, I wrote: “The charges ...