70% of parents favor in-class learning, 23% prefer distance It’s going to be blended-learning. Some 70% of Monongalia County parents have said they want to continue sending […]
Author: Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
Petition: Go remote for first 9 weeks
750 names, teacher testimonials part of effort to pivot online A Monongalia County kindergarten teacher will be part of the roll call during tonight’s Board of Education […]
Students pitch ways to improve the state’s foster care system
Hosted by WVU’s Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship In the COVID-19 summer of 2020, it probably couldn’t have been anything but a mask. At least that’s […]
COVID-19 czar announces child being treated for MIS-C in state
If you’re a parent fretting about sending your kid back to school Sept. 8 — the state’s COVID-19 czar gave you one more thing to fret about […]
Schools consider plans for spring
Like a pandemic version of Alice in Wonderland, the already fluid situation concerning COVID-19 and Mon Schools keeps getting — well — fluider and fluider. The […]
Voting is a ‘fundamental right’
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. That’s “DDT,” for those of you too young to know. In Wisconsin in the late 1950s, all the farmers knew then was that the insecticide worked. […]
Mon teachers return to school to prep for class
Monday was first day back since pandemic After five months of echoing hallways, schools across Monongalia County suddenly got noisy again Monday. That was when teachers and […]
Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote
West Virginia women key to ratification of 19th amendment “Now what would you do in a case like this?” That was the caption-question of a postcard that […]
Mon County approves blended learning for first nine weeks
Faced with growing uncertainty and trepidation over COVD-19, Monongalia County Schools announced Friday it will go with blended learning for the first nine weeks of school this […]
Survey: Parents prefer distance learning
Gov. to announce plan on Sept. 1 So goes back-to-school and the quandary of COVID-19: Kids need to be in the classroom, for face-to-face instruction, from professional […]
