Sparking the evolution of education choice
Editor’s note: In keeping with our year-end tradition, the team at reimaginED reviewed our work over the past 12 months to find stories and commentaries that represent our best content of 2022. This post from reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie is the eighth in our series. You can learn more[Read More…]
Editor’s note: In keeping with our year-end tradition, the team at reimaginED reviewed our work over the past 12 months to find stories and commentaries that represent our best content of 2022. This post from Step Up For Students’ Patrick Gibbons is the fifth in our series. School choice opponents[Read More…]
Editor’s note: In keeping with our year-end tradition, the team at reimaginED reviewed our work over the past 12 months to find stories and commentaries that represent our best content of 2022. This post from reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie is the fourth in our series. On this episode, reimaginED[Read More…]
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, which last month upheld the constitutionality of the Hope Scholarship education choice program, issued on Thursday a 49-page majority decision that a traditional public education system and the statewide education savings account program can operate concurrently without violating the state constitution. Justice Tim[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This opinion piece from Michael J. Petrilli, president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Nathaniel Grossman, editorial and program associate at the Institute, appeared on coalvalleynews.com. Public education in West Virginia looks and feels a little different this fall, thanks to the history-making arrival of the state’s[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on www.newsandsentinel.com. The board governing West Virginia’s expansive educational savings account program approved provisions Wednesday to re-start the program after the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals lifted an injunction blocking it. The Hope Scholarship Board met last week for the first time since[Read More…]
Editor’s note: This article appeared Monday on washingtonexaminer.com. West Virginia families won in court on Thursday when the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia gave the new Hope Scholarship the green light. It’s an amazing story. In early 2019, West Virginia had no school choice programs. When the Legislature considered[Read More…]
Two days after hearing oral arguments, West Virginia’s highest court has dissolved an injunction against the state’s Hope Scholarship program. The move clears the way for the education choice program to resume after a lower court halted it weeks before schools were to reopen, leaving 3,000 families scrambling to find[Read More…]
