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The public charter school system in West Virginia will advise its schools to accept religious exceptions for the mandatory vaccination policies of the state if the student’s application is approved by state health officers.

Governor Patrick Morrisey and the state’s public school system contradict this topic. The Republican governor gave an executive regulation In January, the state asks to allow religious exceptions to its school vaccine laws. He based the command on the same law on the same protection for religion.

The law of the state’s school immunization law Didn’t changeAnd The state school authority said in the early summer that they would not keep up With Morrisys Executive Order. They instructed County Board of Education to request all vaccines and only allow medical exceptions.

Members of The West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board voted to lead the executive director James Paul, to communicate with the seven charter schools of the state that they should accept the vaccination disorders received by the State Ministry of Health. Under Morrisey’s command, a doctor’s signature is not necessary to obtain religious and philosophical liberation.

The decision of the Charter School Board was followed Equal protection for religious law. Whelan said that it had not yet been enforced in this area.

“EPRA creates a personal and private right to act for parents and students who believe that their religious objections are ignored and state laws oppose their religious beliefs,” said Whelan. “The governor is looking for partnership in this area and support in the application of the law on the same protection for religion.”

He continued: “We asked for a similar partnership between the State Board of Education, and that was certainly not what we received in answer. I think a different direction than the charter school authority would certainly be estimated.”

In contrast, Jack Willems, a deputy general prosecutor who advises the Charter School Authority, asked the board to maintain the current strict vaccination regulations of the state, since the laws on state and federal religious freedom overlap with immunization policy.

“It is not only the state education committee. It is also the legislature that has rejected a religious liberation for the mandatory vaccination mandate,” he said.

At the beginning of this year, the GOP-hungry house of the delegates decided unable A legislative template that would have changed the state’s vaccination law to enable religious exceptions.

West Virginia was one of five states in the country in which families could not be freed from the requirements for school vaccination due to their religious or philosophical beliefs. The strict immunization rules have contributed to the fact that the state has one of the country’s highest rates of fully accessed kindergarten teachers in the country.

At the end of July, a judge in Raleigh County set up with Morrisey and his executive order. Granting an injunction For three families who are looking for vaccination disorders for religious reasons. The parents had filed a lawsuit against Raleigh County School because of the problem.

The judge decided that the mandatory school vaccine law of the state without religious exemption for the law is invalid.

“No family should be forced to choose between their faith and their children’s formation, exactly what the non -elected bureaucrats in the state education committee try to force West Virginians,” said Morrisey in his statement after the verdict.

In response to the judgment, the West Virginia Board of Education emphasized that the decision is constrained to the families involved in the lawsuit and that there will be no other families in Raleigh County or throughout the state. The state school authority has not yet announced its next steps because the students return to classrooms this month.

From June the Ministry of Health of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it processed 140 religious exceptions for the school year 2025-2026 under Morrisys Executive Order. At 140, the number of exceptions would still be a petite part of the total number of children in school age in the state, which are estimated at more than 250,000.

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