67% of our property taxes go to the school system. It's a tax I don't mind paying as long as it's used properly. Unfortunately, we're recently had some high level Board of Education employees/adminstrators do some jail time due to gross misuse of funds while teachers have had to take pay cuts and school resources funding getting slashed.
Many of the county BoEs in southern WV need to be consolidated. There's no reason for Mingo, Logan, Wayne,Wyoming, Lincoln, McDowell, and Boone Counties to all have separate BoEs. All combined they have a population of ~198,000 people. Horry County here in SC has over 300,000 people. Seems like some efficiencies could be found by eliminating overlapping bureaucracy.