Through its statewide scholarship program, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation (TGKVF) has awarded 362 post-secondary scholarships for a total of $736,812 this year.

Minc Law offers new scholarship

West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael asked the state Board of Education Thursday morning to retract the state schools superintendent’s $4,000 raise, which Carmichael called “unwarranted,” “shocking” and “outraging.”

Nicholas County’s schools superintendent said Wednesday she hopes ground will be broken in November on replacements for the schools demolished after the June 2016 flood, and hopes for them to open at the start of the 2023-24 school year.

The state basketball tournament in West Virginia, at least for two years, just got bigger.

The Kanawha County Board of Education voted 4-0 Monday to pay BrickStreet Insurance about $819,000 for workers compensation insurance coverage for the upcoming school year.

West Virginia Schools Superintendent Steve Paine and one of his assistant state superintendents have now admitted that they called the senior vice president for programs for ACT, the standardized testing group, in December to “share concerns” about one of its lobbyists’ tweets.

LEWISBURG — Shenandoah Cochran, 34, greeted the two teachers at the front door of her elevated house in Greenbrier County like family friends. Her youngest children, 5-year-old Daniel Pearson and Shenabelle Pearson, 3, abandoned a late-morning snack of fresh-sliced strawberries and mandarin …

The West Virginia Community and Technical College System has been awarded a nearly $4 million federal grant that will fund expanding a program that trains and retrains students and workers while helping companies simultaneously pay them.

The weekend’s flooding in several Northeastern West Virginia counties damaged the Harman School, a roughly 170-student, prekindergarten-12th grade school whose community rallied to save it five years ago.

A South Charleston art teacher’s painting of her boyfriend, entered into an international art contest on a whim, earned her a grand prize win.

Kanawha County native recognized by Glenville State

The state School Building Authority is accepting public comments through noon Friday on extensive proposed policy changes.

A student-teacher team from Nitro High School recently did their part to ensure the memory of a West Virginia soldier killed during World War II will not be forgotten.

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University is aiming for the sky in its attempt to attract new students with a new degree program.

Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday that he has signed the omnibus education measure (House Bill 206), opening West Virginia to its first charter schools and granting pay raises to public school workers and generally increasing school funding.

Kanawha County residents can now freely watch online the 2016 Academy Award for Best Picture winner “Moonlight,” the 1950 landmark Japanese film “Rashomon” and the 2018 movie in which the frames are paintings, “Loving Vincent.”

The West Virginia Legislature finished passing a much-amended version of the omnibus education bill Monday, sending it to Republican Gov. Jim Justice, who has said he will sign it.

Student inducted into music honor society