West Virginia Senate Bill 36 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-13 - To Education
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create a college and career readiness initiative in which the State Board of Education, the Higher Education Policy Commission and the Council for Community and Technical College Education collaborate to formally adopt uniform college and career readiness standards for English/language arts and math. The bill requires that certain assessments or exams be used to determine whether a student meets the standards. The bill require that an explicit focus be embedded in each course on the development of English/language arts and math skills. The bill requires a twelfth grade transitional course for both English/language arts and math for students not college ready. The bill requires that professional development on teaching the college and career readiness standards be included in the state boards goals for professional staff development and ultimately in its Master Plan for Professional Staff Development. The bill requires the state board to require all teacher preparation programs in the state to include appropriate training for teachers teaching in at least grades eight through twelve on how to teach the adopted standards. The bill requires the use of certain assessments or exams, as applicable, to determine whether a student is to enroll in a remedial course or be placed immediately in a college-level introductory course. The bill requires accountability for increasing the percent of students who meet the standards and for increasing the percent of students who are making adequate progress toward meeting the standards. The bill deletes the requirement that a school or school system that achieves adequate yearly progress is eligible for no less than full accreditation or approval status, as applicable.

Relating to adoption of English and math college- and career-readiness standards

Sen. Robert Plymale [D]

Sen. Brooks McCabe [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-13	Senate	To Education
2013-02-13	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2013-02-13	Senate	To Education
2013-02-13	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	23a	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	2	39	New Code	See Bill Text
18	2E	5	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=36&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb36%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=36