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Religious exemptions for school vaccinations have been growing since COVID

Religious exemptions spiked in 2019-2020 when 2.7% of kindergartners, or 1,641 kids, opted out of vaccination requirements. The COVID-19 pandemic did not go into full swing until spring 2020, so those ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Religious vaccine exemption cases consolidated

Fourteenth Circuit Judge Michael Froble, seen here at a July hearing, ruled Monday afternoon in Raleigh County Circuit Court to consolidate two cases involving West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...
West Virginia MetroNews

What’s a religious exemption and what’s a philosophical one? Even the lawyers see that differently

The judge in a vaccine exemptions case that resumes this week asked lawyers to complete some homework about a central question that is also existential: How would you differentiate between religious ...
West Virginia MetroNews

State health agency could have sought more detail for religious exemptions but did not

West Virginia public health officials acknowledge that families seeking religious exemptions to school vaccination policies do not have to elaborate on their beliefs. All that families seeking such ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

West Virginia Board of Education appeals religious vaccine exemption case to state Supreme Court

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Courtroom in the State Capitol Building in Charleston. (Photo Courtesy/WV Supreme Court of Appeals) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education took ...
JD Supra

Supreme Court Holds That School Districts Must Offer Religious Exemptions to Instruction

During the 2022-2023 school year, the Montgomery County Board of Education (“Board”) introduced a variety of inclusive texts into the public school curriculum. Those texts included five ...