Introduced Version
House Concurrent Resolution 29 History
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By Delegates Beach, Proudfoot, Heck and Burke:
H. C. R. 29--"Requesting the Joint Committee on Government
and Finance, in cooperation with the state superintendent of
schools, to make a study of and develop plans for the
implementation of a comprehensive secondary curriculum
including academic and vocational or technical preparation for
all students in the public schools."
Whereas,
In addition to an academic education, every student
should have the opportunity to receive vocational or technical
preparation education suitable to the student's needs; and
Whereas,
The courses which are offered in public schools must
prepare students for identifiable job opportunities; and
Whereas,
Not all public schools currently offer students the
opportunity to receive vocational or technical training on a par
with academic education; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, in
cooperation with the state superintendent of schools, is
requested to (i) review, examine and study the extent to which
students in secondary public schools, grades nine and above,
currently have the opportunity to receive vocational or technical
preparation education; (ii) review, examine and study the extent
to which students who are currently receiving an academic,
vocational or technical preparation education are being prepared
for identifiable job opportunities; (iii) determine the
feasibility of offering all students in public schools who have
reached at least the ninth grade the opportunity to pursue a
vocational or technical preparation education; (iv) develop a
plan to implement a comprehensive secondary curriculum beginningin the ninth grade which would give all students in public
schools the opportunity to receive vocational or technical
preparation education; (v) determine the estimated costs of such
a plan; and, be it
Further Resolved,
That the Joint Committee on Government and
Finance report such findings and recommendations, together with
drafts of legislation necessary to effectuate its
recommendations, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House of Delegates regarding the same by the tenth day of
the regular session of the Legislature, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-six; and, be it
Further Resolved,
That the expenses necessary to conduct
this study, to prepare the report and to draft necessary
legislation be paid from legislative appropriations to the Joint
Committee on Government and Finance.