WCHS - West Virginia faces persistent teacher shortages, broadband access, ongoing learning loss and debates over school choice. Communities are grappling with how best to educate the next generation. Read the full segment. Eyewitness News’ Town Hall “The Future of Education in Appalachia: What’s Working, What’s Broken?” explores the challenges and innovations shaping Appalachian classrooms…
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The Intermountain - Kump Education Center will host Randolph County native Seth DiStefano as the speaker for First Friday Focus on Education on Friday, Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. Read the full article. He works with the West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy in a coalition of concerned citizens called “Together for Public Education.”…
West Virginia MetroNews - West Virginians have deep concerns about the state of the public school system, according to the most recent edition of the MetroNews West Virginia Poll. Read the full article. Forty-six percent of respondents in the latest edition of the poll describe themselves as dissatisfied with the public schools. Just 34% say…
Back to school season always brings excitement and hope. This month as West Virginia’s students head back to school, many families and school staff will also have to navigate the effects of shrinking state K-12 funds, which are falling well below past levels this year. Inadequate state K-12 education funding is having clear impacts including…
The children of West Virginia are guaranteed a thorough and efficient system of free schools by our state constitution. However, due to the growing Hope Scholarship, declining state revenues, and disruptions to federal funding and support, this guarantee is at risk for the nearly 90 percent of school-aged children in the Mountain State that are…
WWNR - More West Virginia schools could soon be forced to cut school nurses, meal programs, and other services. The state faces significant education cuts with the passage of the Trump administration’s budget reconciliation bill, expected to impact more than $240 thousand children. Read the full article. Tamaya Browder, education policy fellow with the West Virginia Center…
The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 proposed budget calls for $4.5 billion in cuts to K-12 programs and $12 billion in total cuts to public education, including higher education programs. This is yet another effort to undermine public education following over $6 billion in withheld and delayed funding to public schools this summer, efforts to…
West Virginia Watch, News from the States, Yahoo News - West Virginia is set to lose more than $25 million in federal education funding this coming school year after President Donald Trump’s administration withheld billions in federal money for after-school and summer programs, adult literacy and English language instruction to ensure spending aligned with the White House’s priorities. …
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Legal News Online - In a Gazette-Mail story from July 10 about the growing cost of the Hope Scholarship, West Virginia Treasurer Larry Pack admitted something that has never been said aloud before. “[H]is office believes only about 10% of the more than 10,000 students who received the Hope Scholarship last year were…
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Huntington Herald-Dispatch - About 15,000 students applied for the Hope Scholarship and will receive full funding for the 2025-26 school year. Read the full article. Of that total, more than 1,700 are from Kanawha County. According to a news release from West Virginia Treasurer Larry Pack’s office, this is more than 4,000 more…