SB914 HFAT Ellington 4-11

Kidd 4753

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

A BILL to amend and reenact §18-28-2 and §18-28-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to certain nonpublic schools; replacing the minimum 180-day instructional term and average of five hours of instruction per day requirements with a minimum instructional term requirement of 900 hours per school year; adding requirement that upon request, the school composite results be made available to the parents or legal guardians of a prospective enrollee in the school; preserving the requirement that upon request of the West Virginia Department of Education, the school’s composite results be furnished to the State Superintendent of Schools; and removing ramifications of a school’s composite test results falling below the 40th percentile.

Adopted

Rejected