HUNTINGTON — A West Virginia university’s school of medicine will welcome two fellows to a new pediatric hospital medicine program launching this summer.

Miller announces service academy noms

West Virginia won’t require seat belts on public school buses.

The Putnam County Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to reappoint John Hudson as the county superintendent for three more years.

Murmurs arose in a Charleston ballroom in September, about an hour into education attorney Howard Seufer Jr.’s presentation.

West Virginia Schools Superintendent Steve Paine told lawmakers there were “missteps” in handling the situation surrounding former University High assistant principal Pete Cheesebrough.

Elise Simokat, a 6th-grader at Hurricane Middle School, spent Thursday delivering 2,100 meals to elementary students in Putnam and Kanawha counties.

Students in two Fayette County schools should in the coming years be gathered under a new roof, as the state School Building Authority agreed Tuesday to fund a new, consolidated prekindergarten through 12th-grade school in Meadow Bridge.

West Virginia School Building Authority staff think Fayette County should get $20 million to combine two Meadow Bridge schools into one prekindergarten- through 12th-grade school.

Then-University High assistant principal Pete Cheesebrough admitted to his superiors in March 2017 that he had texted a student, despite earlier telling them he hadn’t. He admitted that he had met with her, despite his superiors forbidding it. And he admitted that they had been in his truck …

For the third time in three years, West Virginia Board of Education members are proposing a change in the credits students need to graduate from high school.

The Kanawha County Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to pay Lewis County-based Doss Enterprises about $20 million to prepare the new Herbert Hoover High school site for construction.

Approximately 130 students were expected to received diplomas during Saturday’s University of Charleston graduation ceremony in Charleston.

The number of first-time freshmen in West Virginia’s public community colleges jumped 10 percent from last fall to this fall, the first semester in which the state has offered its free tuition program for those colleges.

Anthony Jenkins, who has been president of West Virginia State University for about 31/2 years, is leaving to lead another historically black university, in Maryland.

The Kanawha County Public Library system’s board is accepting applications through Dec. 15 for the $100,000-$120,000 per year job of being its top administrator.

During a speech Nov. 15, Bluefield State College’s new president juxtaposed two graphs. Both showed decline, but not in equal measure.

Henry Lee Leef received his Eagle Scout rank in May 2019 and received his Eagle badge on Nov. 23 at a Boy Scout Court of Honor held by Troop 5 at First Presbyterian Church. He is the son of Dr. Johnsey Leef III and Margaret McLeod Leef. He is the grandson of Dr. Johnsey Leef Jr. and Alfreda …

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved spending roughly $52 million to rebuild Kanawha County’s Herbert Hoover High School, whose students have been in trailer classrooms for more than two years.

The Kanawha County Board of Education voted Thursday to erase multiple countywide bans from the student dress code, paving the way for other-than-ear piercings, baggy clothes, and shorts and skirts shorter than mid-thigh.

For the first time, a Marshall University professor will lead the West Virginia-based National Youth Science Camp.

MONTGOMERY — BridgeValley Community and Technical College is still considering moving at least part of its South Charleston campus to Charleston.