Education (and Related Subheadings)

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Creating pilot program for TANF recipients of academically achieving children [SB-56]
Creating pilot program for TANF recipients of academically achieving children

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Walters Filed For Introduction on 01/08/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Creating licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio [SB-55]
Creating licensed school psychologist-pupil ratio

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Walters Filed For Introduction on 01/08/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Requiring SSAC promulgate rules allowing college preparatory team recognition [SB-540]
The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate rules that allow a college preparatory team to elect to be recognized as a member.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale To House Education on 02/20/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Providing certain law-enforcement officers employed as school security be allowed to carry firearms [SB-539]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that law-enforcement officers employed as school security be allowed to carry firearms on school property if certain conditions are met.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mitch Carmichael To House Judiciary on 02/27/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Repealing section relating to state aid for students of veterinary medicine [SB-515]
Repealing section relating to state aid for students of veterinary medicine

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale On 1st Reading on 02/10/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to cost reimbursement of servicing high-cost/high-acuity special needs students [SB-513]
The purpose of this bill is to provide a more equitable distribution to county boards of reimbursement of the costs of serving high cost/high acuity special needs students. These are students whose educational costs exceed three times the average per student cost and include regularly enrolled, out-of-state placed and residential facility students with special needs who are enrolled with a county board. The reimbursement of costs over that limit is made with a combination of state and federal funds, but currently meet only fifty-four percent of (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale Committee Substitute Reported, But First To Finance on 02/14/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Excluding suspension days in determining student truancy [SB-493]
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that suspension days are not counted as days absent from school when assessing whether a juvenile is a status offender or when prosecuting an adult for their child’s failure to attend school.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Corey Palumbo To House Education on 02/25/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Providing teachers determine use of time during planning period [SB-477]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that teachers determine the use of time of a planning period. It also provides a definition of “meeting” for purposes of this section.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale Vetoed By Governor 4/1/14 on 04/01/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Creating Move to Improve Act [SB-455]
Creating Move to Improve Act

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Beach To House Education on 02/28/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to calculating local share [SB-432]
The purpose of this bill is to delay the imposition of penalties until a county’s assessments are below the constitutionally required 60% of market value including the 10% variance for two consecutive years; changing the Tax Commissioner’s deadline for reporting the total assessed values to the state Board of Education from December 1 to March 1; requiring that in any county for which a valid sales ratio analysis cannot be obtained due to a lack of arm’s-length sales of property in the county it be assumed that all property in the county is assessed (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Roman Prezioso Tabled On 3rd Reading, Daily Calendar on 03/08/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to public school curricular standards and assessments [SB-429]
The purpose of this bill is to affirm the parent or guardian as the final authority in all matters of a student’s education and to require prior parental or guardian written affirmative consent for disclosure of any student information other than aggregate data that is not personally identifiable. The bill prohibits the State Board of Education from continuing to implement the Common Core assessments, and requires the formation of a Legislative Common Core Committee to conduct statewide hearings on the common core standards and associated assessments (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mitch Carmichael Filed For Introduction on 01/24/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to data sharing in P-20W Longitudinal Data System [SB-420]
Relating to data sharing in P-20W Longitudinal Data System

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Roman Prezioso Committed To Finance On 2nd Reading on 03/06/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Requiring Department of Education provide professional development opportunities regarding dyslexia [SB-413]
Requiring Department of Education provide professional development opportunities regarding dyslexia

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Miller Filed For Introduction on 01/22/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Defining "dyslexia" for education purposes [SB-412]
Defining "dyslexia" for education purposes

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Miller Reported Do Pass, But First To Education on 02/12/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Requiring public school screening for dyslexia [SB-410]
Requiring public school screening for dyslexia

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Beach Filed For Introduction on 01/22/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to education reform [SB-409]
Relating to education reform

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Hall Communicated To Senate on 03/08/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Requiring CPR and care for conscious choking instruction in public schools [SB-381]
The purpose of this bill is to require CPR to be taught in the public school system as a condition of graduation.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale To House Education on 02/28/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Reducing certain allowances in computation of local share [SB-332]
The purpose of this bill is to reduce the amount deducted from revenue as a county allowance for purposes of computation of local share.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Hall Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Redefining "eligible institutions" to receive PROMISE scholarship funds [SB-309]
The purpose of this bill is to include Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifies provisions regarding the higher education institutions that are eligible to continue to receive PROMISE scholarship funds.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Cann Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0

State (West Virginia)
West Virginia 2014 Regular Session

Relating to county board of education employee personal leave accrual [SB-284]
The purpose of this bill is to require that full-time employees of county boards of education accrue personal leave on a monthly basis, with days accrued at the end of each pay period, and may only use personal leave up to the amount actually accrued.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Erik Wells Filed For Introduction on 01/08/2014

Weigh In

No votes yet!
Cast yours now to be the first.

Votes for: 0 Votes against: 0