A recent report included a disturbing fact about West Virginia public education. According to a story from Mountain State Spotlight, there are now eight county school districts — Mingo, Tyler, Upshur, Logan, Nicholas, Boone, Roane and Randolph — of the state’s 55 where the West Virginia Department of Education is overseeing operations.

Fifteen percent of state school districts are under the state DOE microscope. That’s jarring.

That’s not an indictment against the students or teachers in any of those districts. They’re not why the state has intervened. The actions of the county boards of education themselves led to the state department stepping in.

State investigators found the Mingo school board rife with political infighting and not following proper parliamentary procedures. The Tyler

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