West Virginia’s Board of Education said Tuesday that it is reinstating the state’s public school vaccine mandate without religious exemptions after the state Supreme Court paused a lower court order that had allowed families to opt out.
The high court stayed a permanent injunction entered by Raleigh County Circuit Judge Michael Froble, who had barred education officials from refusing to honor religious objections to the state’s compulsory immunization law. The stay restores the previous policy while appeals proceed.
“In light of the West Virginia Supreme Court’s stay of the class certification order and the permanent injunction order entered in Raleigh County Circuit Court, the West Virginia Board of Education is reinstating its directive to county boards of education not to accept religious exemptions to compulsory vaccination laws,” the board said in a statement.
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