West Virginia’s War on Public Schools

Andy Spears
3 min readMar 6, 2021

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.

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Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .