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County representative warns HOPE scholarship, calendar and funding bills could reallocate local school dollars
Summary
Andy Garber, the district's representative to the West Virginia School Board Association, summarized multiple pending bills — including the HOPE scholarship (voucher), a switch from 180 days to 900 instructional hours, and funding formulas — and Dr. Miller told the board the district already has about 606 students receiving HOPE dollars, roughly $3,000,000 reallocated from district funds.
At the Ohio County School Board meeting, Andy Garber (S2), the district's representative to the West Virginia School Board Association for District 6, gave a legislative update describing several bills before the legislature that the board should watch.
Garber characterized the HOPE scholarship as effectively a voucher and warned that each HOPE payment to students reduces funding available to public schools. "The HOPE's call it should be called a voucher," he said, adding that money directed to alternative providers "is less…
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