West Virginia Public Broadcasting – The Hope Scholarship program has been at the center of statewide debates about public school funding and educational freedom. Critics of the program are concerned about its diversion of funding from public schools, while proponents see the program as an opportunity to individualize education for their children’s needs.
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Katie Switzer, who lives in Charleston, said the program is the only way her daughter with learning disabilities can access the therapies and tutoring she needs to be successful.
“When she’s around a lot of kids, she has trouble getting the words out fast enough to speak out,” Switzer said. “So she has done really well with homeschool and doing online or small group kind of classes, through homeschool co-ops.”
