West Virginia Senate Bill 200 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-13 - Senator Maroney requests to be removed as sponsor of bill
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 a five-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 bill requires 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.

Increasing high-quality educational opportunities within public school system

Sen. Robert Karnes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-13	Senate	Senator Maroney requests to be removed as sponsor of bill
2017-02-09	Senate	To Education
2017-02-09	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2017-02-09	Senate	To Education then Finance
2017-02-09	Senate	Filed for introduction

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=200&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb200%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=200