West Virginia financial profile
Statehood Without the Federal Floor (cohort 2) · No federal trust (state-derived)
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State-derived: no federal admission grant
West Virginia entered the Union without a federal school-land grant — either because it predated the federal land-grant template (the Original 13) or because it was admitted under a different model (annexation by treaty, cession from a parent state, statehood from a sovereign republic). Counting House measures the federal-trust architecture; for West Virginia that architecture was never built. The state's own school-finance instruments (general appropriations, local property tax, in some cases a state-derived endowment) live elsewhere in the library.
Permanent fund corpus
Most recent distribution
Federal grant acreage
Transparency status
No federal trust to disclose
State-derived: never received a federal admission grant, so there is no federal-trust corpus to publish. (The state may still have its own state-derived fund or other school-finance instruments.)
Governance form
Classification: No federal trust (state-derived)
West Virginia Board of Education (constitutional general-supervision body, statutorily composed under W. Va. Code § 18-2-1 — nine voting members appointed by the Governor with Senate consent for staggered nine-year terms, plus three ex officio non-voting members). The Board is not a fiduciary trustee of the School Fund corpus; corpus custody and investment lie with the State Treasurer and WVIMB respectively.
