One of the newest charter states - home to West Virginia Academy, a 2023 Yass Prize Finalist and the first charter in the state -- is the 16th strongest for its wisdom in creating an independent body to authorize schools, allowing them to be their own LEA and...

Schools can offer career and technical and work-based learning opportunities, as well as credit for these activities towards graduation. West Virginia’s commitment to personalized, mastery and competency-based education is reflected in the state’s portrait of...

Incoming Governor Patrick Morrisey is a strong advocate for education opporunity.  As the Attorney General in 2022, he helped overturn the challenge to the Hope Scholarship program and will help see it through to statewide eligibility in 2026. At the same...

Thanks to the remarkable leadership of State Senator Patricia Rucker and her allies are home to one of the most expansive ESAs in the country. The Hope Scholarship gives parents 100% of the state funding to find the education their students need, which is huge...

School report cards are accessible in the “Data Analysis & Research → Education Data” section of the West Virginia Department of Education website, which takes the viewer to an external website called ZoomVW. The report cards, organized by school districts,...

One of many data points to assess whether a state has the right policies in place to ensure teacher quality is the "use of student achievement data in teacher preparation accountability." How empty or full the fuel tank above is will give you the answer for your state.

The West Virginia Supreme Court, in a vote of 3-2 overturned the decision of the Kanawha County Circuit Court judge and ruled the Hope Scholarship Program constitutional. The Hope Scholarship Act into law in 2021. It provides money for a variety of educational...