West Virginia’s War on Public Schools

The West Virginia legislature is continuing an unprecedented assault on public education. Just days after pulling back the largest expansion of school vouchers in the country, the House of Delegates passed a new version of a voucher plan.

Here’s more on that effort from the Charleston Gazette-Mail:

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed Thursday legislation providing an estimated $4,600 per student, per year to every family for every child they remove from public schools to home- or private-school them.

That near-universal eligibility for these non-public school vouchers is likely unprecedented among these types of programs in other states.

Parents would be required to spend these vouchers on educational expenses, like tuition at religious or other private schools, online schooling, tutoring or textbooks, though the list of allowed expenses would be nearly unlimited.

Additionally, over time, the bill would subsidize more and more families who never had their children in public schools at all.

It seems that school privatizers are working around the clock around the country to funnel public money into private hands.

A story out of Indiana notes that state is struggling to find new teachers. This is in part due to a severe loss of funding for public schools over the last decade.

More from Chalkbeat on the teacher crisis:

Only 1 in 6 students…