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WV SB854

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Rollan Roberts

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires all public schools to maintain a minimum 180-day instructional term with an average of five hours of instruction per day
  • Mandates public schools maintain annual attendance and immunization records, comply with fire/health/safety inspections, and establish crisis response plans
  • Requires public schools to administer a nationally normed standardized achievement test (published or normed within the last 10 years) at the same grade levels and subjects as the statewide summative assessment
  • Schools with composite test scores falling below the 40th percentile must initiate a remedial program; if scores remain below the 40th percentile for two consecutive years, attendance at that school no longer satisfies compulsory attendance requirements and students would be considered delinquent
  • Applies the same minimum standards for attendance and test scores to public schools as currently required for private, parochial, church, or religious order schools

Legislative Description

Creating Academic Quality in Public Education Act

Education (K12)

Last Action

To Education

3/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Education3/20/2025

Full Bill Text

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