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- Whatever Happened to Pauley vs. Bailey,
The Story of the Politics of Education in West Virginia: Challenge West Virginia's 100-page study examines recent education history in West Virginia, where conditions in public schools resulted in a court decision ordering the restructuring of school finance so that all the state's children could receive the same educational opportunities. This study explores the intersection of political interests with state education and tax policy and
the resulting inability of the state to truly reform public schools.
To order a copy, please send a check or money order for $20 (which includes postage and handling) to Covenant House, 600 Shrewsbury Street, Charleston, WV 25301-1211. - NEWSLETTER: Challenge West Virginia publishes a monthly newsletter devoted to education issues.
- Long School Bus Rides: Stealing the Joy of Childhood by Beth Spence, a report on school bus transportation times in West Virginia...March 2000.
- Small Schools by Beth Spence, based on a West Virginia study that shows low-income kids do better in small schools....October 2000.
- If This is Democracy, Then I Missed the Bus by Beth Spence, the story of small schools advocates who were blocked from participating in facilities planning in West Virginia....May 2002.
- Craig Howley 's web site - he has done a great deal of research about small schools.
- Appalachia Education Laboratory
- Rural School and Community Trust
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Challenge West Virginia is a program of West Virginia Covenant House