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"The era of BIG spending is over... in West Virginia" - West Virginia Governor @MorriseyWV
Senator Rucker and Matt discuss how your child's education funding should follow them, no matter where they learn!
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Useful work by @AFPWV compiling school building utilization for every county. Data like this should be published routinely by the state, not obtained through FOIA. It should inform hard decisions on closures, consolidation, the funding formula, etc.
NEW REPORT: West Virginia’s public school buildings are only about 55% full. 🏫
Using county-level data obtained through a FOIA request, AFP-WV found that the state has about 416,000 seats for roughly 230,000 enrolled students. That’s 1.8 seats for every student.
Meanwhile, total public school funding rose 16% in just two years, a $663 million increase.
As the debate over the school funding formula heats up heading into the 2027 Legislative Session, lawmakers should fund students, not systems, and ensure parents direct every dollar.
👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/4dySiIY
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West Virginia’s public schools have the physical capacity to seat 416,004 students while currently enrolling 230,714.
Not a rural phenom either: Kanawha County alone has 17,947 empty seats, more than the entire student population of nearly every other county in the state.
Total public school funding rose from $4.149 billion to $4.812 billion in just two years—a 16% increase. Over that same stretch, the state has kept operating nearly the same number of buildings it had when enrollment was tens of thousands higher.
West Virginia doesn’t have a funding problem. It has a structure problem.
🚨 New report lays out what a student-centered funding formula, that funds kids instead of buildings and lets parents direct the dollars, could look like. ↓
NEW REPORT: West Virginia’s public school buildings are only about 55% full. 🏫
Using county-level data obtained through a FOIA request, AFP-WV found that the state has about 416,000 seats for roughly 230,000 enrolled students. That’s 1.8 seats for every student.
Meanwhile, total public school funding rose 16% in just two years, a $663 million increase.
As the debate over the school funding formula heats up heading into the 2027 Legislative Session, lawmakers should fund students, not systems, and ensure parents direct every dollar.
👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/4dySiIY
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Our children are a part of West Virginia’s comeback story.
Over the past year, Gov. @MorriseyWV has announced more than 19,000 projected jobs and $96B in outside private investments.
Thank you Delegate Moore! Another income tax cut. Another huge win for hardworking West Virginia families!
Nine states already have ZERO personal income tax. West Virginia can be NEXT.
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Thank you to all who attended the Kanawha County Scorecard Dinner! Thank you to our Policy Champions!
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The West Virginia Hospital Association is worried that if we repeal Certificate of Need, someone will cherry-pick the profitable services and walk away from maternity care.
I have some news for them...
New op-ed in WV News is out today:
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Enrollment is down across the nation, not just in the Mountain State. On average, our school buildings sit half-empty. Meanwhile, West Virginia taxpayers are spending more on public schools, and for fewer students, than ever before.
Despite the siren song of the tax-and-spend left, simply spending more on government-run education will do nothing to fix the inherent flaws in our school funding formula or help our kids succeed. State lawmakers should swiftly take bold action to fund students, not systems while ensuring parents direct every dollar.
NEW REPORT: West Virginia’s public school buildings are only about 55% full. 🏫
Using county-level data obtained through a FOIA request, AFP-WV found that the state has about 416,000 seats for roughly 230,000 enrolled students. That’s 1.8 seats for every student.
Meanwhile, total public school funding rose 16% in just two years, a $663 million increase.
As the debate over the school funding formula heats up heading into the 2027 Legislative Session, lawmakers should fund students, not systems, and ensure parents direct every dollar.
👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/4dySiIY
Thank you Delegate Jennings! Another income tax cut. Another huge win for hardworking West Virginia families!
Nine states already have ZERO personal income tax. West Virginia can be NEXT.
NEW REPORT: West Virginia’s public school buildings are only about 55% full. 🏫
Using county-level data obtained through a FOIA request, AFP-WV found that the state has about 416,000 seats for roughly 230,000 enrolled students. That’s 1.8 seats for every student.
Meanwhile, total public school funding rose 16% in just two years, a $663 million increase.
As the debate over the school funding formula heats up heading into the 2027 Legislative Session, lawmakers should fund students, not systems, and ensure parents direct every dollar.
👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/4dySiIY
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Senate Finance Chair Jason Barrett, R-Berkeley, has responded to the WV Dept. of Education's proposed legislation changing the school funding formula.
News drop: West Virginia school leaders today unveiled a proposed school funding formula overhaul with hope lawmakers will consider it.
The proposed formula seeks to address declining public school enrollment, special education costs and more.
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/1…
Thank you Senator Hart! Another income tax cut. Another huge win for hardworking West Virginia families!
Nine states already have ZERO personal income tax. West Virginia can be NEXT.
Thank you Delegate Hall! Another income tax cut. Another huge win for hardworking West Virginia families!
Nine states already have ZERO personal income tax. West Virginia can be NEXT.
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Thank you Delegate Mallow! Another income tax cut. Another huge win for hardworking West Virginia families!
Nine states already have ZERO personal income tax. West Virginia can be NEXT.
