West Virginia School Board Association

This week, West Virginia Supreme Court justices will consider whether the state’s system of approving charter schools is constitutional.  Justices will hear oral arguments at 10 a.m. On Tuesday, May 9th.  The legal battle is not about whether West Virginia can have charter schools, but instead whether they may be authorized through a newly established Professional Charter Schools Board.  The court challenge is based on a the stare Constitution that says “no independent free school district, or organization shall hereafter be created, except with the consent of the school district or districts out of which the same is to be created, expressed by a majority of the voters voting on the question.”