Education (k12)
West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Relating to the comprehensive statewide student assessment [HB-2926]
The purpose of this bill is to to require ACT and ACT Aspire to be used as the comprehensive statewide student assessment.
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Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services [HB-2902]
The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services in the form of the employment of a psychologist or psychiatrist to pupils to address issues stemming from drug abuse.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Relating to basic state aid to public education [HB-2809]
The purpose of this bill is to provide an adjustment to the allocated state aid share to any county on account of, and in the amount of, payments or contributions in lieu of property tax distributed from the sheriff to the county board of education as a result of payment in lieu of tax agreements first entered into on or after July 1, 2016.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Creating an additional class of special education classroom aides [HB-2787]
The purpose of this bill is to create an additional class of special education classroom aide and to specify the pay grade for this class of school service personnel.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Clarifying a director of a multicounty vocational technical school is a principal [HB-2795]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that directors of multicounty schools are principals and not superintendents.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
School Consolidation Task Force [HB-2742]
School Consolidation Task Force
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Relating to qualifications of paraprofessionals, autism mentors and braille or sign support specialists [HB-2761]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that paraprofessional, autism mentor and braille or sign support specialist qualify for early childhood classroom assistant teacher positions.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion [HB-2695]
Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition [HB-2571]
The purpose of this bill is to require the State Department of Education and the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to jointly select language developmental milestones from existing standardized norms for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools [HB-2572]
The purpose of this bill is to increase high-quality educational opportunities within the public school system by allowing authorized public schools and programs exceptional levels of self-direction and flexibility in exchange for exceptional levels of results-driven accountability. To accomplish this, the bill provides an infrastructure for the authorization and oversight of new start-up schools, conversions of existing schools or conversions of programs within existing schools that are accountable for student learning, operations and governance
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Improving the focus on school-level continuous improvement processes [HB-2524]
The purpose of this bill is to improve the focus on school-level continuous improvement processes led by the principal. The bill includes instructional leadership among the duties and responsibilities of principals and assistants and requires instruction in their certification requirements. The instruction must include the standards for high quality schools, the school accreditation process and strategic planning for continuous improvement. School systems are given the flexibility to establish their own systems of support and supervision of beginning
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Preventing the State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards and assessments [HB-2543]
Preventing the State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards and assessments
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Suspending the implementation of the school aid formula until the year 2021 [HB-2436]
The purpose of this bill is to suspend the implementation of the school aid formula for school district budgeting until the year 2021; requiring that all school systems be funded at the level established by the 2016-2017 budget during this period; and providing that the Legislature develop a new funding formula to be implemented for the budget year 2021-2022.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Establishing academic standards and assessment methods [HB-2443]
The purpose of this bill is to establish academic standards and assessment methods.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed [HB-2403]
The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed in a later instructional term when inclement weather and emergencies prevent the otherwise full instructional term from being completed. The bill establishes an instructional day to be three hundred thirty minutes.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Requiring schools post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline [HB-2374]
The purpose of this bill is to require schools to post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline number.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Reducing the number of pupils per school nurses [HB-2336]
The purpose of this bill is to reduce the ratio of pupils to school nurses employed by county boards of education from one per every 1,500 pupils in K through seventh grade to one per every 1,000 pupils.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel [HB-2210]
The purpose of this bill is to increase pay to teachers and service personnel by two percent the first year, two percent the second and one percent in the third year.
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
Increasing salaries for teachers [HB-2211]
Increasing salaries for teachers
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West Virginia 2018 Regular Session
West Virginia Educational Restoration Act [HB-2214]
The purpose of this bill is to discontinue and prohibit the use of Common Core academic content standards; to adopt alternative academic content standards; to discontinue the use of common core based assessments; to establish a committee and process for developing alternate statewide assessments of student progress; to prohibit the state board or any public school from sharing student data without parental consent; and to prohibit acceptance of federal funding if such funding is conditioned upon sharing student data without parental consent.