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West Virginia University law professor Joshua Weishart responds to the West Virginia Senate bill that would ban teacher strikes in a blog post on West Virginia Legal Ed, June 14, 2019: "Illegal" Best Describes Punitive Anti-Strike Bill, Not Teacher Activism. The West Virginia legislature is currently considering the Establishing Student Success Act in an special legislative session. It was passed by the Senate on June 3, 2019.

A version of Professor Weishart's post was also published online by the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Wednesday June 19, 2019.

West Virginia University College of Law professor Joshua Weishart posted a new work to SSRN. The article, "Rethinking Constitutionality in Education Rights Cases", is forthcoming in the Arkansas Law Review. It is an invited symposium essay and will appear in Volume 17 in 2019.

From the abstract:

West Virginia University School of Law faculty members will participate in the West Virginia Law Review's annual symposium to be held today, Thursday, February 21 and tomorrow Friday, February 22, 2019. The Education Law Symposium will explore two landmark education law decisions - Pauley v. Kelly and the Recht Decision. Other symposium topics include the 2018 teacher strikes; recent trends in state education rights litigation; the future for equity in education; and education law in higher learning.

Professors Joshua Weishart, Shine Tu, and Dean Gregory Bowman will all participate as panelists or panel moderators.

West Virginia University law professor Joshua Weishart comments on the constitutionality of the charter school provisions of West Virginia Senate Bill, SB 451 in a blog post on West Virginia Legal Ed: "Charter School Bill Likely Unconstitutional".

Professor Weishart was also interviewed on the issue on West Virginia Public Broadcasting by news director Jesse Wright. Watch the interview here:

West Virginia University law professor Joshua Weishart published two new blog posts at WV Ed Law Blog on the issue of school funding in West Virginia. Professor Weishart's commentary is in response to an omnibus bill in the West Virginia Senate, SB 451.