HB4175 S ED AMT

Hager 7871

The Committee on Education moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill No. 4175 -- A BILL to amend and reenact §18-8-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating generally to home schooling; clarifying that a child who is exempt from compulsory school attendance is not subject to prosecution for failure to attend school and is not a status offender; requiring superintendent to show probable cause when seeking order to deny home instruction; modifying who is to provide notice of intent to provide home instruction; changing notice of intent frequency from annually to a one time notification; removing requirement that notice of intent include the grade level of child; requiring notice of intent include certain assurances; requiring notice upon termination of home instruction for a child who is of compulsory attendance age or change in county of residence; removing requirement for notice of intent two weeks prior to withdrawal from school; modifying requirement that the person providing home instruction have a high school diploma or equivalent; removing requirement that person providing home instruction outline plan of instruction for ensuing year; replacing specific annual deadline for obtaining an academic assessment of the child with the requirement that the assessment be obtained annually; removing requirement to submit results of the assessment to superintendent annually; removing requirement for parent or legal guardian to pay assessment cost when given outside public school; allowing use of a nationally normed standardized achievement test normed not more than ten years from the date of administration; removing requirement that the nationally normed standardized achievement test be administered under standardized conditions; requiring nationally normed standardized achievement test be administered by a person qualified in accordance with the test’s published guidelines; permitting parent or legal guardian to administer nationally normed standardized achievement test; modifying criteria for determining acceptable progress under the nationally normed standardized achievement test academic assessment option; removing requirement to provide written narrative of portfolio assessment to superintendent annually; removing requirement to provide certification number of the certified teacher providing written narrative; removing requirement that criteria for acceptable progress be mutually agreed upon by certain parties under the alternative academic assessment of proficiency academic assessment option; requiring parent or legal guardian to keep academic assessments for three years; making requirement for county board to notify parent or legal guardian of services available to assist in the assessment of the child’s eligibility for special education services applicable only upon request; and requiring parent or legal guardian to submit to superintendent results of required assessments at grade levels three, five, eight and eleven by certain date.