The public middle school with West Virginia’s highest percentage of Black students will no longer be named after a Confederate general, the Kanawha County Board of Education decided Monday.
Shuttered since March, West Virginia public schools are scheduled to reopen next month, but it’s unclear how that will unfold.
Nicole Pride, vice provost for academic strategy and operations at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, one of the nation’s largest historically black colleges and universities, will be West Virginia State University’s new president.
Kathy D’Antoni is retiring Friday after serving as West Virginia’s top public school vocational education leader for the past decade, during which she oversaw the creation of the state’s Simulated Workplace program.
A few minutes before the Kanawha County Public Library opened its temporary location for the main library at Charleston Town Center mall, library patron Connie Perry said she could hardly wait to get inside.
Nearly four years after the Boone County school system slashed their salaries by thousands of dollars apiece, Boone County public school workers have won a combined roughly $2.5 million settlement.
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West Virginia will continue having one person lead the daily operations of its two- and four-year college oversight and policy agencies.
The woman who recently lost her bid to become Bluefield State College’s leader, a vice provost at a North Carolina historically black university and the president of the University of The Bahamas are the finalists to become West Virginia State University’s next president.
West Virginia is receiving $750,000 to provide college students free online textbooks, better advising and emergency money for unexpected expenses, among other things, the state’s higher education oversight agencies announced Thursday.
Students who still have not qualified for the $4,750-per-year Promise Scholarship for the upcoming academic year will be able to take the ACT at many West Virginia colleges through the end of September.
Paramount Builders LLC, of St. Albans, on Wednesday was awarded the contract to build a new classroom building and a hangar for Marshall University’s Bill Noe Flight School at Yeager Airport following a vote by the Charleston airport’s governing board.
Members of the Herbert Hoover High School Class of 2020 gathered Tuesday morning at Laidley Field to celebrate a final rite of passage of their high school life — graduation.
Current Capital High Assistant Principal Jaclyn Swayne will be the new principal of St. Albans High, and current South Charleston Middle Assistant Principal Abby Stevens-Siggers will lead Dunbar Middle.
The University of Charleston will bring students and employees back to campus for in-person classes to restart Aug. 24, the private school announced Monday.
Students, parents and others marched on the Kanawha County School Board Saturday evening calling for Stonewall Jackson Middle School to be renamed.
After more than 800 people, including current students, alumni and others, signed a petition calling West Virginia University “systematically anti-Black,” the university is forming groups this summer to recommend solutions.
Supporters of changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Middle School are marching on the Kanawha County Board of Education this Saturday.
Sarah Tucker, current chancellor of West Virginia’s two- and four-year college systems, is a finalist to remain in that role.
All Kanawha County public high schools will have graduation ceremonies next week at the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field, the county school system announced Monday.
The roughly 37,000 rising first- and second-grade public school students in West Virginia will each receive five free books this summer, with the help of the Dollywood Foundation and state and federal funds.
Concord University in Athens has established The Jonathan Powell Scholarship and George Floyd Memorial Scholarship.
Dale Lee has won a fifth, three-year term as president of the West Virginia Education Association union, repulsing his first challenge for the role in a dozen years.
West Virginia State University is projecting that the coronavirus pandemic will cause a 20-25% drop in total student enrollment in the upcoming academic year, shrinking an already diminished number of students on campus.
