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Dr. Miller urges stronger oversight of homeschooling notices and tighter Hope Scholarship guardrails
Summary
At the Ohio County Schools board meeting Dr. Miller asked the board to seek changes to the state's compulsory attendance/home-schooling procedures — including requiring a phone number on notices and wider student assessment — and called for stronger accountability and limits on the Hope Scholarship, citing state budget projections.
Dr. Miller, speaking at the Ohio County Schools board meeting, urged the board to press for changes to how homeschooling and the Hope Scholarship are handled in West Virginia, saying the district needs better tools to ensure student safety and public-school fiscal stability.
"We are requesting that notice of intent include a phone number," Dr. Miller told the board, noting that the current compulsory-attendance language requires families who homeschool to file a notice of intent, a curriculum outline, the person providing instruction and assessments in a limited set of grades but does not require contact information that would help the district…
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