Article snippet: “Despite teacher protests, Republicans in the West Virginia House of Delegates have advanced their wide-ranging education proposal to allow the state’s first charter schools,” the Associated Press reported on Monday. Late Wednesday, the House of Delegates passed that education bill that included charter schools by a 51 to 47 margin. On Thursday, WV Metro News reported, “Senate President Mitch Carmichael indicates an omnibus education bill will likely pass that chamber – again — and Gov. Jim Justice says he will sign it.” The #RedforEd rally on Monday drew teachers from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia, as well as national media. Reporters for Jacobin Magazine, the openly Marxist publication that often features #RedforEd leaders as contributors, sent this tweet out Monday’s rally: AFT-West Virginia, the state chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, was on the ground as well: New York Magazine was apparently on the ground in Charleston, West Virginia on Monday and also weighed in about the #RedforEd rally at the state capitol: But, for one of the few times since the #RedforEd movement launched in Arizona in March 2018, the show of political force failed to yield the desired political results, as WV Metro News reported: Proponents of charter schools, however, say the West Virginia bill passed by the House on Monday does not go far enough. “A proposal is under consideration in the West Virginia House of Delegates right now to approve an omnibus edu... Link to the full article to read more