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"The era of BIG spending is over... in West Virginia" - West Virginia Governor @MorriseyWV
Thank you Senator Takubo! 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 Senator Chapman! 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.
State Treasurer Larry Pack says West Virginia should take advantage of the Federal Education Choice Tax Credit passed by President Trump!
Thank you Delegate McGeehan! 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 Burkhammer! 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.
AFP WV retweeted
The West Virginia Hospital Association says Certificate of Need is “essential in protecting local hospitals from being undermined by for-profit, out-of-state providers.”
In Chapmanville, a hospital owned by out-of-state companies asked for a hearing on a West Virginia independently-owned non-profit’s clinic. The judge found it didn’t qualify to challenge it. The Authority approved the clinic 180 days after Boone Memorial applied.
The case is now before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Who is CON protecting?
Read here → jessicadobrinsky.substack.co…
AFP WV retweeted
One thing the State Board of Education did not include in their proposal is the cost. Taxpayers deserve to know what’s being asked of them by @WVEducation.
Especially when WV is already spending record amounts on government-run education.
West Virginia's school funding formula needs reform. But @WVEducation's proposed overhaul is a step backward: more complexity, less local flexibility, and no fiscal estimate. Let's go back to the drawing board and build a formula that puts students first
wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op…
AFP WV retweeted
Just gonna leave this here… 👀
Nearly the same spending after inflation. Far fewer students.
ALT West Virginia public-school spending and enrollment. In FY2024 dollars, total spending rose 1.5%, from $4.37 billion in 2015–16 to $4.43 billion in 2023–24. Fall enrollment fell 15.2%, from 277,138 in 2015 to 234,957 in 2025. Spending includes all funding sources and capital costs. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, WVDE and BLS. Axes are zoomed; the two series end in different years.
ICYMI: AFP-WV released a new report that shows West Virginia schools are MORE THAN half empty.
👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/4dySiIY
Senator Rucker and Matt discuss how your child's education funding should follow them, no matter where they learn!
Watch the rest of the interview on our Facebook or Youtube.
AFP WV retweeted
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
AFP WV retweeted
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
AFP WV retweeted
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.
