Well-educated students who are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century are vital to our success as a state. Today’s students will have unprecedented opportunity to succeed in life, if they are properly educated and prepared.

Last week, West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty pointed to important facts regarding the West Virginia school-age population and regulations regarding school funding. Hardesty correctly points out that , to improve public education, legislators must remove regulations put in place by their predecessors that hamper student success. Only legislators can remove the shackles contained in 1,300 pages of rules and regulations that hold back public education in West Virginia.

Those laws have not been substantially updated to allow for the nee

See Full Page