H. B. 2578
(By Delegates Williams, Crosier and Sumner)
[Introduced February 21, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Education then the Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-9A-5a and §18-9A-5b of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to increasing
the ratios of professional and service personnel to students
in net enrollment and establishing the ratios for certain
school years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-9A-5a and §18-9A-5b
of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9A. PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORT.
§18-9A-5a. Ratio of foundation allowances for professional
educators and service personnel to net enrollment.
(a) The purpose of this section is to establish maximum ratios
between the numbers of professional educators and service personnel
in the counties which are funded through the public school support
plan and the net enrollment in the counties, such ratios are in addition to the ratios provided for in sections four and five of
this article. It is the intent of the Legislature to adjust these
ratios pursuant to legislative act as may be appropriate when
additional personnel are needed to perform additional duties.
(b) Commencing with the school year one thousand nine hundred
eighty-nine--ninety Beginning on the first day of July, two
thousand five, and each school year thereafter, in computing the
basic foundation allowance to a county for professional educators
and the basic foundation allowance to a county for service
personnel under sections four and five of this article, a county
shall not receive an allowance for such personnel which number per
one thousand students in net enrollment is in excess of the number
of professional educators and the number of service personnel in
the county computed as follows:
Maximum professionalMaximum service
educators per 1000personnel per 1000
net enrollment thenet enrollment the
For thepreceding yearpreceding year
school
year
1998-99 74.0 43.5
Maximum service Maximum service
Personal per 1000 personnel per 1000
Maximum professional net enrollment the net enrollment the
For the
educators per 1000
preceding year for preceding year for
school year
net enrollment the
each high density
each low density
1999-2000
and thereafter
2004-2005
74.0
43.6
44.5
Maximum professional Maximum service
educators per 1000 personnel per 1000
net enrollment the net enrollment the
For the preceding year preceding year
school High density Low density High density Low density
year County County County County
2005-200674.1074.2043.7344.69
2006-200774.2074.4043.8544.89
2007-200874.3074.6043.9745.10
2008-200974.4074.8144.1045.30
2009-201074.5075.0344.2345.50
2010-201174.6075.4044.3645.70
(c) Every county shall utilize methods other than reductions
in force, such as attrition and early retirement, before
implementing their reductions in force policy to comply with the
limitations of this section.
§18-9A-5b. Foundation allowance for increasing professional and
service personnel positions.
Commencing with the school year beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, two million five hundred thousand dollars
shall be appropriated for the purpose of increasing the ratios of
professional and service personnel per one thousand students in net
enrollment as set forth in section five-a of this article. For
each of the eleven following school years, an additional two
million five hundred thousand dollars shall be added to the
appropriation for this purpose. The increases in the ratios of
professional and service personnel per one thousand students in net
enrollment shall be made in a manner which reflects the greater
need of counties with a low student population density for
additional personnel.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
increase the ratios of
professional and service personnel to students in net enrollment
and establishing the ratios for certain school years.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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