Two of the bills in House Education today are constitutionally impermissible. First, the WVBE rule making requires a constitutional amendment, which was attempted unsuccessfully in 2022, and the WVDE doesn’t make rules. It doesn’t seem to matter and no one is stopping them from running these. I suspect they want to pass them to line up a challenge to the requirement of a constitutional amendment before what is viewed as a more favorable Supreme Court.
Two of the bills in House Education today are constitutionally impermissible. First, the WVBE rule making requires a constitutional amendment, which was attempted unsuccessfully in 2022, and the WVDE doesn’t make rules. It doesn’t seem to matter and no one is stopping them from running these. I suspect they want to pass them to line up a challenge to the requirement of a constitutional amendment before what is viewed as a more favorable Supreme Court.