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Mon BOE hears request to lessen mask mandate

Carmen Abreu is hoping to save a little face this coming fall in Monongalia County’s school district. Abreu, who first spoke to Board of Education members last month asking them to reconsider the district’s mask mandate for students in younger grades, presented a petition with 316 ...

Postcast 72 – May 21, 2021

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Voters reject school ‘cultural sensitivity’

by Cynthia M. Allen Southlake, near Fort Worth, Texas, is not the most unlikely place for a showdown over critical race theory. The Dallas-Fort Worth suburb is a red city, but its surrounding county went blue in the last presidential election (for the first time in more than 50 ...

High court hears charter school case

Who’s suing who? That was the question the justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court had for the attorney representing the board of what still could be the Mountain State’s first charter school. Mark Sadd, who client is West Virginia Academy, asked the high court to overrule the ...

Proms and the promise of a better year for Mon County Schools

Rented tuxedos and gowns just so. Corsages, the newly waxed car in the driveway for the cruise to the hall and the requisite cellphone snaps in front of the fireplace, for the memory and mom’s Facebook page. Last year, prom – the prime social event in high school – was canceled in ...

Who pays for Fla. woman’s anti-vax rants?

by Fabiola Santiago Even for a city with a storied history of deep-pocketed scam artists who swoop in and dazzle the powers-that-be, the quackery at Centner Academy in Miami stands out. A two-campus private school for the children of downtown and midtown hipsters who can afford ...