Bill Text: WV SB860 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Creating alternative high-risk population public charter schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-24 - Referred to Finance on 2nd reading [SB860 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB860-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 860
By Senator Rucker
[Originating in the Committee on School Choice; reported February 24, 2024]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5G-14a, relating to creating alternative high-risk population public charter schools; describing students of said schools; and requiring the state board to promulgate a rule for funding.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 5g. Public Charter Schools.
§18-5G-14a. Alternative high-risk population public charter schools.
(a) Alternative high-risk population public charter schools may be authorized and funded pursuant to this article. To be eligible for an alternative high-risk population public charter school, the school must have an unduplicated count of at least 70 percent of their total enrollment, upon first entry to the school, comprised of high-risk students and obtain approval from the Charter School Board certifying the school meets the criteria. "High Risk" students include the following:
(1) Students who have been expelled;
(2) Students who have been suspended more than 10 days in a school year;
(3) Wards of the court or dependents of the court;
(4) Recovered dropouts;
(5) Students who are habitually truant;
(6) Students who have been retained more than once in kindergarten through grade eight;
(7) Students who are credit deficient;
(8) Students who have a high-level transiency such as being enrolled in more than two schools during the past academic year or have changed secondary schools more than two times since entering high school;
(9) Foster youth;
(10) Homeless youth; and
(11) Students who need greater flexibility in scheduling or have circumstances which would benefit from this type of schooling.
(b) The state board shall promulgate a rule pursuant to the provisions of §29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code setting forth requirements for alternative high-risk population charter school funding.
