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July 3, 2024

Hope Scholarship Eligibility to Expand

Huntington Herald-Dispatch – The Hope Scholarship Program has officially met state law requirements to become available for all school-age children in West Virginia for the 2026-27 academic year, state Treasurer Riley Moore announced in a news release Tuesday.

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“This will be a monumental leap forward for school choice, allowing tens of thousands of additional West Virginia families to access this program,” Moore, chairman of the Hope Scholarship board, said in the release.

The Hope Scholarship Act was passed by the state Legislature in 2021 and allowed families of children entering kindergarten or enrolled in public school for a certain period of time to use tax funding that would have gone toward their child’s public education as a stipend for private, alternative or homeschool education instead.

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