BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — With just weeks until school starts, districts across West Virginia are left with dozens of unfilled teaching positions. West Virginia Education Association […]
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Teachers haven’t felt the love, but this is Teacher Appreciation Week
Yesterday was the nationally recognized Teacher Appreciation Day, but Teacher Appreciation Week goes until Friday. The not-holiday is extra special this year, given all the flack educators […]
Guest essay: Power of intention
by Tega Toney “Intentional” is one of the most meaningful words in the English language. It means something is done on purpose or something is deliberate. It […]
W.Va. can’t wait for a ‘rainy day’
For Fiscal Year 2022 (which began July 1, 2021), West Virginia’s revenue collections are $394 million above estimates so far. In fact, just this past December alone, […]
Harvey’s light of learning glows on
MORGANTOWN — Clarence Harvey Jr., the longtime Monongalia County educator and school board member who died last week at the age of 95, was fluent in the […]
WVDEP taking teacher award nominations
Agency will honor top environmental educators in 2022 Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Rehabilitation Environmental Action Plan is accepting applications for the 2022 […]
COVID issues dominate Preston School Board meeting
KINGWOOD — At Monday night’s two-hour Preston County Board of Education meeting some board members said they wouldn’t vote for a vaccine mandate, the board and concerned […]
COVID goes back to class with Mon last week: Positive cases, quarantines reported in several schools
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County students couldn’t sidestep the coronavirus in the main hallway for the return to classes last week. Twenty-four students across the district tested positive […]
Preston County Schools to mask up after contentious meeting
KINGWOOD — At an emotional and disorderly emergency meeting of the Preston County Board of Education Monday morning, board members voted 3-2 in favor of requiring masks […]
Art teacher doesn’t like the pandemic picture for the new school year
With COVID uncertainty still shading the proceedings, Monongalia County teachers are reporting to their classrooms today, in preparation of next week’s first day of school. Sam Brunett […]