WBOY – The Hope Scholarship offers $4,921 for families who would like their children to be educated outside of the public school system. Currently, it’s only available to students entering kindergarten, but in 2026, it will be opened to all students in West Virginia.
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State Treasurer Riley Moore says that as many as 40,000 private school or homeschooled students could use the Hope Scholarship when it opens to everyone. If half of that 40,000 decide to take the $5,000 scholarship, then that is a roughly $100 million of new expense for the state government—money that some argue should go to West Virginia’s public schools.
Kelly Allen of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy has been a vocal critic of the Hope Scholarship. Allen argues that the Hope Scholarship draws funding away from public schools, only aids a small subset of West Virginians, and has questionable education outcomes.
