West Virginia House Bill 2774 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on February 16 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-16 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to develop better West Virginia Educational Standards tailored to West Virginia students, developed by West Virginia education professionals; to promote involvement of local educators and parents; to prohibit the school board from ceding authority over standards or student data to federal government or private entities; to prohibit the use of common core standards and assessments; to implement temporary standards; to limit the use of statewide assessments; to prohibit the sharing of student level data; to create the West Virginia Legislative Education Standards Development Steering Commission and Education Standards Development Subcommittees; and to prohibit colleges in this state from denying admission based on participation in common core programs or tests. These sections are new; therefore, they have been completely underscored.

Relating to public school standards and assessments

Del. Jim Butler [R]	Del. Marty Gearheart [R]	Del. Cindy Frich [R]	Sen. Randy Smith [R]
Del. Joshua Nelson [R]	Del. Michel Moffatt [R]	Sen. Mike Azinger [R]	Del. Scott Cadle [R]
Del. Pat McGeehan [R]	Del. John Kelly [R]	Del. Michael Ihle [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-16	House	To House Education
2015-02-16	House	Introduced in House
2015-02-16	House	To Education
2015-02-16	House	Filed for introduction

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2774&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2774%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=2774