Textbooks and workbooks with West Virginia ESA and scholarship funds
What is covered, conditions and how to pay
- Status
- Covered with conditions. Covered, including e-textbooks and fiction and nonfiction books.
- Conditions
- Textbooks and workbooks (including electronic), study guides and fiction or nonfiction books, bought through TheoPay from approved websites, or bought out of pocket and reimbursed as off-the-shelf curriculum within 90 days.
- Limits
- Reasonable Cost and age tests.
- Payment routes
- Hope portal Marketplace (services) or TheoPay (goods), Reimbursement (listed circumstances only)
- Documentation
- TheoPay order; for reimbursement, an itemized receipt filed within 90 days.
- Not allowed
- Purchases made before funds were available in the account; receipts that do not show the student and items.
- Example
- A history textbook for the student's grade
- Source
- Hope Scholarship Reimbursement Policy, Extenuating circumstance 3 (version Adopted on December 10, 2025). Checked 2026-10-19.
Providers in this category
Applies to every Hope Scholarship offer: Hope services are bought in the closed Marketplace of the Hope Scholarship portal and goods through TheoPay; both routes are open to every Hope account holder. Reimbursement is allowed only in the circumstances of the Board's Reimbursement Policy (adopted December 10, 2025), must be requested within 90 days of purchase, and purchases made before funds are in the student's account do not count.
| Price and units | Qualifying evidence statuses | |
|---|---|---|
| Apologia | Not published by the provider | Confirmed: Apologia, West VirginiaAvailable via another route: Apologia, West Virginia |
| Sonlight | Not published by the provider | Confirmed: Sonlight, West VirginiaAvailable via another route: Sonlight, West Virginia |
| Teaching Textbooks | Not published by the provider | Confirmed: Teaching Textbooks, West VirginiaAvailable via another route: Teaching Textbooks, West Virginia |
How this table is compiled: sources and methodology.