Schools

At Tuesday’s Cabell County Board of Education meeting, community speakers expressed concern that the principal of Huntington East Middle School told female students not to report unwanted sexual contact if they dress suggestively.

Local school boards currently make masking rules for their districts. All counties have required their students to wear masks at some point in the pandemic.

The program will place full-time Game Changers counselors in three Harrison County schools for the entire year starting in the fall of 2022. Those schools are Lincoln High School, Lincoln Middle School and Big Elm Elementary School.

Almost 80 grade schools entered the West Virginia Department of Education's “I Got Vaxxed” Competition. Four elementary, middle and high schools with the highest percentage of students and staff vaccinated have won $50,000 each.

State Superintendent of Schools Clayton Burch and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the goal in West Virginia, and across the nation, is to keep kids in the classroom, and not a virtual one.

Gov. Jim Justice announced today that elementary and middle schools will open for in-person learning on Jan. 19, 2021.

More than $800,000 has been awarded to four county school boards in West Virginia to help with school safety needs. Grant, Pocahontas, Upshur and Marshall…

West Virginia officials are once more changing a color-coded map of coronavirus cases that determines whether it’s safe for local school boards to offer…

Nearly six months into the ongoing pandemic, West Virginia continues to see a surge in coronavirus cases. The rise in cases comes as K-12 schools reopen.…

Calloway County Schools is one of a minority of school districts in Kentucky to offer in-person classes alongside a remote learning option. The school district’s decision went against Governor Andy Beshear’s recommendation to delay in-person school openings until late September due to COVID-19 concerns.