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AFP WV retweeted
Top Counties with the most Hope Scholarship county recipients!
Over 14,000 students across the state recieved the Hope Scholarship and these counties have the most recipients!
Read the full report here: buff.ly/pXMzN4m
AFP WV retweeted
Continued growth and success for the Hope Scholarship Program!
State Treasurer Larry Pack, who serves as Chairman of the Hope Scholarship Board, today released the 2025-2026 Hope Scholarship Annual Report, highlighting significant success for students making satisfactory academic progress, overwhelmingly positive feedback from parents and continued growth in expanding educational opportunities for West Virginia students.
For the full report click here: buff.ly/Hbdx6Xf
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While we disagree with the environmental left’s rhetoric, there’s one thing we should agree on: they have a right to say it.
Government has no prevailing interest in leveraging state-led investigations to put a thumb on the scale of a fight over policy or politics.
The freedom of speech and of peaceful assembly are sacrosanct. And actions by government that, however well-meaning, chill free speech are antithetical to those unalienable rights.
The principled approach to pushing back against speech with which we disagree is more speech, not less.
Attorney General J.B. McCuskey’s office issued an investigatory subpoena to West Virginia Rivers Coalition for a decade of records on climate claims, internal deliberations, fundraising and partnerships.
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Laughable.
The West Virginia Hospital Association posted that access to healthcare “is about more than the services that generate revenue.”
Labor and delivery doesn’t generate much revenue. How’s that going?
→ May 2026: Stonewall Jackson Memorial in Weston, Lewis County. Vandalia cited low patient volume.
→ April 2026: Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County. Vandalia gave the same reasons.
→ 2024: Jefferson Medical Center in Ranson, Jefferson County. WVU Medicine cited volume.
→ 2022: St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, Cabell County. Mountain Health Network cited declining births and moved deliveries to Cabell Huntington Hospital.
The WVHA also wants credit for caring for patients regardless of their ability to pay.
Hospitals with an ER have to do that. It’s federal law—EMTALA—and it applies to both for-profit and non-profit hospitals.
That obligation is not what a non-profit tax break buys.
→ WVU Hospitals (2024 tax filing): $12.4M in charity care at cost, against roughly $56M in estimated tax exemption. That's on $2.47B in revenue and a $95M surplus.
→ CAMC: $18.3M in charity care, against roughly $45M in estimated exemption, with a $66M surplus.
And when one of these systems drops a service, Certificate of Need makes it hard for anyone else to come in and replace it.
If access is the priority, why does the WVHA fight so hard to protect a law that keeps anyone else from providing it?
Access matters. So does competition.
Patients over systems.
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
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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.
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.
AFP WV retweeted
Thank you to all who attended the Kanawha County Scorecard Dinner! Thank you to our Policy Champions!
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The West Virginia Hospital Association is worried that if we repeal Certificate of Need, someone will cherry-pick the profitable services and walk away from maternity care.
I have some news for them...
New op-ed in WV News is out today:
AFP WV retweeted
Enrollment is down across the nation, not just in the Mountain State. On average, our school buildings sit half-empty. Meanwhile, West Virginia taxpayers are spending more on public schools, and for fewer students, than ever before.
Despite the siren song of the tax-and-spend left, simply spending more on government-run education will do nothing to fix the inherent flaws in our school funding formula or help our kids succeed. State lawmakers should swiftly take bold action to fund students, not systems while ensuring parents direct every dollar.
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
Senate Finance Chair Jason Barrett, R-Berkeley, has responded to the WV Dept. of Education's proposed legislation changing the school funding formula.
News drop: West Virginia school leaders today unveiled a proposed school funding formula overhaul with hope lawmakers will consider it.
The proposed formula seeks to address declining public school enrollment, special education costs and more.
westvirginiawatch.com/2026/1…
AFP WV retweeted
Honored to receive the Pioneer for Prosperity Award from @AFPWV.
Thank you to Ambrose Rucker for the presentation and to constituents from the Eastern Panhandle, including Gateway Republican Women and AFP, for joining us at my Martinsburg Office today!
AFP WV retweeted
A stunt that proves little. In WV you established a "school" with no kids, teachers, or parents. A school with no kids never opens. Education choice lowers barriers for new providers and trusts parents to judge, instead of letting bureaucrats define what counts as a school.
NEW w/ propublica: We’re reporters, not teachers. We were able to start private schools anyway.
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AFP WV retweeted
This is disappointing news.
Nuclear power will play a crucial role in creating energy abundance in America. @AFPWV urges state policymakers to continue to engage in this important conversation as we work together to lower energy costs for hard-working families and make West Virginia the centerpiece of American’s energy future.
West Virginia has bowed out of a federal initiative that could have bought a nuclear energy hub. The state submitted a one-page, one paragraph letter to withdraw from consideration.
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AI will revolutionize how West Virginia does healthcare, giving doctors and nurses more time with their patients. 🩺
“The technology we’re talking about can automatically generate structured clinical notes from conversations between patients and providers.”
—Gov. @MorriseyWV
AFP WV retweeted
Federal permitting reform represents a HISTORIC opportunity to turn West Virginia's energy advantage into MORE jobs, a BETTER economy, and STRONGER communities.
Congress should follow @SenCapito's bold leadership by adopting this LANDMARK legislation!
Let's get Washington out of the way so we can build West Virginia's future.
CC: @AFPWV, @AFPhq, @AFPGovAffairs
AFP WV retweeted
I’m honored to earn the endorsement of Americans for Prosperity. I remain committed to lower taxes, American energy independence, educational freedom, & policies focused on WV families.
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