Tax Credits for Homeschoolers

Tax Credits for Homeschoolers

WV homeschooling is currently home-based, privately funded, and parent-directed. Because homeschoolers do not receive public funds, tax credit legislation is the best way to provide financial help to homeschoolers. Claiming school expenses as tax credits would provide...
Homeschool Funding

Homeschool Funding

Where the Definition of “Fair” Gets Blurry Last legislative season, legislators wisely made a distinction between state-funded ESA students and homeschoolers. If such legislation is introduced this session, we trust the same will happen. While that may...

Jefferson’s Plan for Education

by John Carey, CHEWV’s Legislative Liaison Consider this startling quote from Thomas Jefferson, author of West Virginia’s Religious Freedom Clause: It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the...
Two-Week Waiting Periods and Surprise Police Visits

Two-Week Waiting Periods and Surprise Police Visits

Since most assume that today’s parents have long since escaped the days of covert homeschooling because of legal threats, imagine the shock when police officers and school officials recently showed up at the doorsteps of WV homeschoolers.  While officials later...
Anti-Homeschooling Sentiments Countered

Anti-Homeschooling Sentiments Countered

Anti-homeschooling sentiments are nothing new. From the socialization concerns in the 1980’s to this past fall when we reportedly cost Harrison County two million dollars, homeschoolers have often found themselves an easy target.    CHEWV was saddened but not...

2020 Legislative Roller Coaster

While CHEWV has made only limited public statements about the happenings during the 2020 Legislative session, it is not due to lack of legislative activity related to homeschooling!  On the contrary, this session has been somewhat of a roller coaster.  At times,...