HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 102

(By Delegate Espinosa, Ellington, Wilson, Rowan, Hardy, Bibby, Cowles, Householder, Kessinger and Foster)

[Introduced June 17, 2019]

Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to conduct an interim study on the desired vision and future for public education in West Virginia.

Whereas, §18-1-4 of the West Virginia Code establishes Vision 2020: An Education Blueprint for Two Thousand Twenty (Vision 2020); and

Whereas, Vision 2020 required the Board of Education to create a plan that set forth goals, objectives, strategies, indicators and benchmarks to be achieved in public education by the year 2020; and

Whereas, The Legislature has not received a report on the status of reaching the measurements set forth in the Board of Education’s plan; and

Whereas, The next regular session of the Legislature is in 2020; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance is hereby requested to conduct an interim study on the desired vision and future for public education in West Virginia; and, be it

Further Resolved, That a report on the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the study, together with drafts of any legislation necessary to effectuate the recommendations, be reported to the Legislature at its 2020 Regular Session; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the expenses necessary to conduct this study, to prepare a report and draft legislation are requested to be paid from legislative appropriations to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.