SB595 H ED AMT 3-5
Your committee on education moves to amend the title of the
bill, by striking the title and inserting in lieu thereof a new
title
to read as follows:
S. B. 595 -- "
A BILL to
repeal §18B-1-1, §18B-1-1b and
§18B-1-1c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to repeal
§18B-1A-1 and §18B-1A-2 of said code; to repeal §18B-1B-8 and
§18B-1B-9 of said code; to repeal §18B-3B-1 and §18B-3B-2 of said
code; to repeal §18B-11-5 of said code; to amend and reenact
§18-1-4 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-2E-5c of said code
;
to amend and reenact §18B-1-1a of said code; to amend said code by
adding thereto a new article, designated §18B-1D-1, §18B-1D-2,
§18B-1D-3, §18B-1D-4, §18B-1D-5, §18B-1D-6, §18B-1D-7 and
§18B-1D-8; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section,
designated §18B-14-9, all relating to education generally;
establishing Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand
Twenty; requiring State Board of Education plan that includes
goals, objectives, strategies, indicators and benchmarks;
specifying certain public education goals and objectives to be
included in plan;
submission of plan to Process for Improving
Education Council; purposes and membership of council; providing
legislative findings, intent and purposes; establishing goals for
public higher education; creating education partnership to achieve
state goals and objectives; establishing elements of higher education accountability system; requiring Higher Education Policy
Commission and Council for Community and Technical College
Education to propose rules by certain date; defining terms;
specifying objectives and priorities; establishing date to achieve
certain objectives and priorities; defining responsibilities of
Higher Education Policy Commission, Council for Community and
Technical College Education and state institutions of higher
education relative to accountability system; requiring system
master plans, state compacts, institutional compacts and
institutional and system report cards; establishing submission,
approval, review and reporting requirements; authorizing
implementation plans; assigning geographic areas of responsibility;
specifying that certain reports are no longer required to be
prepared annually except under certain conditions; providing for
committee to examine higher education facility needs; specifying
membership; and requiring recommendations to Legislative Oversight
Commission on Education Accountability by certain date.
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