A promising name for a program is not a school

Eleven Mingo County parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the universal expansion of West Virginia's Hope Scholarship.

By: Robert B. Miller

Outlets: West Virginia Watch

Published: September 22, 2026

Words: 790

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Eleven Mingo County parents have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the universal expansion of West Virginia’s Hope Scholarship. Their children attend Dingess Elementary, a rural school facing closure after the 2026-27 school year. The parents allege that Hope’s expansion, combined with the Legislature’s failure to repair the public-school funding formula, helped create the financial conditions now being used to justify that closure.

That causal connection remains to be proved. …

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