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WV HB2668

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Joseph Statler

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Origin

House of Delegates

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires all public high school students entering 9th grade in 2025-2026 and beyond to earn one credit in a West Virginia Department of Education-approved computer science course before graduation

  • The computer science credit can satisfy existing graduation requirements in Mathematics, Science, Career and Technical Education (CTE), or Electives without increasing the total credits needed to graduate

  • Students earning multiple computer science credits may apply each toward different graduation requirement categories (Mathematics, Science, CTE, or Electives)

  • Students may complete the computer science requirement as early as 8th grade, but credits earned before 9th grade cannot be applied toward the four core graduation requirement categories

Legislative Description

Requiring students in public high schools to complete a course of computer science instruction

Education (K12)

Last Action

To House Public Education

2/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Public Education2/20/2025
Education2/20/2025

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