Feb 20, 2021
House Bill 2012 to adjust the public charter school pilot program in West Virginia has been handed to the state Senate. It could ensure Mountain State parents have choices for their children’s education, but House Education Committee Minority Chairman Sean Hornbuckle, D-Cabell, is right: ” … slow down and let’s take a more concerted effort to make this legislation that’s going to impact our children a lot better,” he said on the House floor last week.
As it stands, the bill would change the maximum number of public charter schools from three to 10. To put that in perspective, since the program’s inception there has been only two attempted applications, from parents in Monongalia and Putnam counties. The school boards in those counties rejected the proposal.