by CHEWV | Mar 12, 2025 | Featured Articles, Legislative, News
The 2025 legislative session is well underway. CHEWV has been watching introduced legislation and committee agendas to see what bills start to move in committees. So far, four homeschool-related bills have been introduced, none of which has moved beyond introduction....
by CHEWV | Nov 7, 2024 | Abusive Situations Charged to Homeschooling, Legislative, News
Currently, most of CHEWV’s concerns for the 2025 WV Legislative Session center on responses to recent abuse situations. A frequent response to heart-breaking situations like Raylee Browning’s and Kynnedi Miller’s is, “We need to do something...
by CHEWV | Oct 9, 2024 | Abusive Situations Charged to Homeschooling, Featured Articles, Legislative, News
CHEWV has been seeing news articles calling for new homeschool regulations in West Virginia nearly every week! Some information in them is legitimate but misplaced; other tidbits are downright frightening. Altogether, it’s evidence that there is a real and...
by CHEWV | Aug 8, 2024 | Legislative, News
West Virginia homeschoolers are in the trenches of a philosophical battle that has ramifications nationwide. The context is the relatively recent deaths of two children. A prevalent question has been, “If more homeschooling regulation saves just one child, isn’t it...
by CHEWV | Jul 11, 2024 | Abusive Situations Charged to Homeschooling, Featured Articles, Legislative, News
And Why It Matters A young West Virginia teen who died tragically in an emaciated state was said to have had an eating disorder.1 While absolutely heartbreaking, according to an article from the UMass Chan Medical School,2 eating disorders in teens more than doubled...
by CHEWV | Mar 13, 2024 | Legislative, News
The 2024 session of the WV Legislature has now come to a close. Here is a brief summary of the two bills we watched closely : HB 4945 Going into this year’s session, CHEWV’s top priority was to maintain a separate legal category for private homeschooling as needed...
Recent Comments