West Virginia Senate Bill 686 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: Introduced on February 22 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-03-02 - Recommitted to Finance on 2nd reading

The purpose of this bill is to allow county boards of education to authorize the creation of new public charter schools and the conversion of public schools to public charter schools under certain conditions; set forth which laws and rules apply to public charter schools and which do not; require a governing body to be established for each public charter school; require teachers and service personnel to receive the same pay as other teachers and service personnel in the county and to receive the same benefits; authorize merit pay for teachers based on a career ladder concept; require student transportation to be provided by agreement with the county board; give preferred status solely for the purposes of applying for a position in a regular public school to certain public charter school personnel who are deselected or resign; require the selection of a public charter school principal by the county board of education initially, but thereafter providing for selection and deselection only upon the recommendation of the governing body to the board; require the creation of an advisory group to make recommendations to the principal for the selection and deselection of teachers; require the county board of education to select and deselect personnel based on the public charter school principal's request; and requiring evaluations of public charter schools. This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

Relating to public charter schools

Sen. Donna Boley [R]	Sen. Richard Browning [D]	Sen. Larry Edgell [D]	Sen. Karen Facemyer [R]
Sen. John Fanning [D]	Sen. Dan Foster [D]	Sen. Walt Helmick [D]	Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]
Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]	Sen. Brooks McCabe [D]	Sen. Michael Oliverio [D]	Sen. Corey Palumbo [D]
Sen. Robert Plymale [D]	Sen. Dave Sypolt [R]	Sen. Erik Wells [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-02		Recommitted to Finance on 2nd reading
2010-03-02		On 2nd reading
2010-03-01		Reported do pass, with amendments
2010-02-24		On 2nd reading to Finance
2010-02-24		Read 1st time
2010-02-24		On 1st reading
2010-02-24		Immediate consideration
2010-02-24		Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance
2010-02-22		To Education
2010-02-22		To Education then Finance
2010-02-22		Introduced in Senate
2010-02-22		To Education then Finance
2010-02-22		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute 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	14	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	15	New Code	See Bill Text
18	33	16	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

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=686&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill