By Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — What’s your opinion on charter schools in West Virginia?
Now’s your chance to put it in writing with the state Department of Education.
The department is accepting public comments on its Policy 3300, which was spun from the passage of a house bill that would allow up to 10 charter schools in the state over the next three years.
Charter schools are those private institutions of learning that run separate from public schools.
Generally, they aren’t beholden to state-mandated policies or benchmarks.
They can have a free-form curriculum and a year-‘round calendar, if their administrators and governing boards want. They can exist solely online, even.
But don’t grab for the hall pass just yet. There is a caveat.
In West Virginia, any such school must get approval of the public board of education of the respective county where it wishes to set academic roots…
To read more: https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/07/06/state-department-of-education-accepting-public-comment-on-charter-school-policy/
