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 President Dale Lee predicts the problem will only get worse this fall. “I project those ...
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 have faced at school board meetings and on the floors of state legislatures recently. But in all the ...
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 is a powerful word and shows the true purpose or goal of an action. Example: I am intentionally writing this piece to uplift ...
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, tax revenue was $124 million above what the state predicted for the last month of the calendar year. Which got us thinking ...
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 language of his profession. Even the more jargon-y aspects of it. That is to say, he could make monuments out of manipulatives – ...
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 Make It Shine Environmental Teacher of the Year ...