Officials overseeing West Virginia’s public charter school system plan to advise the schools to accept exemptions to mandatory vaccination policies on religious grounds if they’re approved by state health officials.

That is contrary to the position the state’s traditional public school system has taken but in line with Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s directives.

It’s another skirmish in an ongoing conflict over how individual religious views should affect vaccine policies meant to suppress the spread of communicable disease.

Members of the West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board agreed during a meeting Thursday morning to have executive director James Paul communicate to individual schools in the system that they should accept state-issued vaccination waivers obtained by families.

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