WVEA: State down over 1,000 teachers

August 9, 2022

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 numbers to be over 1,500 this coming school year,” Lee said on Monday’s MetroNews “Talkline.” The state Department of Education reported 1,196 teacher vacancies statewide in 2021. Lee said the vacancies are widespread across all different grade levels. “Before we used to hear it’s ...

Dig in: Mon Schools ready to serve up breakfast and lunch to hungry students

August 5, 2022

There have been more than a few times over these past several months that Brian Kiehl didn't know where his next meal was coming from. From the pandemic to supply-chain issues wrought by the war in Ukraine, the above was a literal concern for the nutrition director of Monongalia County ...

W.Va. Academy has first day of classes — and the Hope Scholarship gets a failing grade

August 3, 2022

Cars from the future? Just like that, a new narrative in the education of the Mountain State’s young people took shape Tuesday morning in the parking lot of a nondescript, white-and-maroon brick building at 763 Chestnut Ridge Road. That’s when parents began rolling up with their ...

A tale of two rankings: Mon Schools officials want to delve into the numbers from two recent quality of life surveys for the classroom

August 2, 2022

Mountaineers, by literal definition, have to keep climbing. Metaphorically, however, planting the flag in triumph at the peak can sometimes be akin to setting off an avalanche below. Translation: Don’t get too comfortable — because there’s always going to be something. Two ...

Mon Schools hosting backpack giveaways, meet-and-greets with outreach coordinators ahead of the first day of school

July 29, 2022

The way to a student’s heart is through his backpack. The way to his heart is knowing someone in the school system cares, really cares, about him and his family. That’s the philosophy of Donna Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district — and ...

Mon school district’s central office settles in to its new address in Sabraton

July 27, 2022

Live from Sabraton … it’s the Monongalia County Board of Education. As of Friday. When the BOE convenes that day for a noon meeting to discuss a North Elementary School renovation project, it will be at its new digs on 1751 Earl L. Core Road, in a building that once housed the ...