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FBI Academy looking for 2023 class nominations

The FBI CJIS Division Citizens Academy is seeking nominations for its 2023 class. Over an eight-week period, the FBI Citizens Academy provides an inside look at the FBI to pillars in the community. This includes business, religious, civic and community leaders. The program provides an avenue to strengthen relationships and improve understanding between the FBI and the community. Classes are taught by FBI executives, senior special agents and program managers. Topics may include (but are not limited to) overviews of programs at the FBI’s CJIS Division such as the National ...

Divisive politics hurting public schools, California educators say

Poetry, Robert Frost said, makes you remember — what you didn’t know you knew. Which, in many ways mirrors the findings of a study on life in America’s public schools released this week by two education professors from America’s Melting Pot of California. “Educating for a ...

Teachers provide input at inaugural ‘Solutions for Success’ focus group

BY MIKE NOLTING The first public education focus group was held Tuesday night in Morgantown. A second meeting was held Wednesday in Wheeling. “Solutions for Success” sessions are facilitated by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA). The two unions came up with the idea after another round of national teaching showed West Virginia at or near the bottom of the list. Three questions posed to the audience, primarily made up of teachers, were designed to determine what local schools do well, where they can improve and ...

Two AmeriCorps volunteers join North Elementary to manage its agriculture program

If you can remember mimeographed handouts and overhead projectors in school, you also know the old “My dog ate my homework” dodge — which has been rendered all but obsolete by the digital domain. Well, with the exception of North Elementary School, maybe. There, the homework can be edible, with the two-legged set doing the consuming. Since 2011, the school on Chestnut Ridge Road has incorporated agriculture into its day-to-day. That was the year WVU professor and master gardener Jim Rye planted a seed for a grant that led to a plot for a humble vegetable garden. The ...