WV circuit court wrongly blocked Gov. Justice from enforcing charter school law, state Supreme Court says

A West Virginia circuit court erred when it briefly prevented Gov. Jim Justice from enforcing a 2021 law he signed allowing an independent board to authorize publicly funded charter schools, the state Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday. Justices unanimously vacated Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Bailey's December 2021 preliminary injunction. They said in order to lawfully block the approval of new charter schools in the state, the court would have had to issue the injunction against the state's Professional Charter School Board, which was not named as...