HB4183 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. House Bill 4183--A Bill to amend and reenact §18-28-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating generally to testing requirements for nonpublic schools; requiring a nationally normed standardized achievement test be administered at the same grade levels and in the same subject areas as required in the public schools; requiring test to be published or normed within the last ten years; requiring the student participation rate on the standardized achievement test be the same as that required in the public schools; removing exemption for nonpublic schools that exclusively teach special education students or students with learning disabilities from provisions pertaining to accountability for the school’s composite test results falling below the 40^th percentile; requiring for those schools assessment to be made of students at the same grade levels and in the same subject areas as required in the public schools; allowing testing in additional subject areas or grade levels at sole discretion of school; and conforming provisions pertaining to accountability for a school’s composite test results falling below the 40th percentile.

Adopted

Rejected