West Virginia House Bill 4011 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-20 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to increase high-quality educational opportunities within the public school system by allowing authorized public schools and programs exceptional levels of self-direction and flexibility in exchange for exceptional levels of results-driven accountability. To accomplish this, the bill provides an infrastructure for the authorization and oversight of new start-up schools, conversions of existing schools or conversions of programs within existing schools that are accountable for student learning, operations and governance under a performance contract or charter subject to 5-year renewal, but then are exempt from the regulatory framework applicable to public schools without a charter contract. However, the bill includes a detailed and comprehensive definition of public charter schools that lists what these schools may and may not do, what rules and statutes they must abide by and how they are to be governed. The bill creates a statewide Public Charter School Oversight and Authorizer Board to develop policy, provide training, and perform oversight, administrative and reporting functions, including reporting directly to the State Board. The organizers of these charter schools must apply to the county board who may choose to be the authorizer of the school or forward the application to the statewide board for consideration and authorization.

Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools

Del. Paul Espinosa [R]	Del. John Overington [R]	Del. William Romine [R]	Del. Jill Upson [R]
Del. Joseph Statler [R]	Sen. Eric Nelson [R]	Del. Tom Fast [R]	Del. Joe Ellington [R]
Del. Ron Walters [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-20	House	To House Education
2016-01-20	House	Introduced in House
2016-01-20	House	To Education then Finance
2016-01-20	House	Filed for introduction

SB407 (Similar To) 2016-01-27 - To Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	20	5	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	33	1	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	10	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	11	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	12	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	13	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	2	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	3	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	4	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	5	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	6	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	7	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	8	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	9	New Code	See Bill Text
18	7A	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	7B	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	9A	12a	New Code	See Bill Text
18	9A	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
29	12	5a	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	16	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
5	16	22	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4011&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4011%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4011