H. B. 2530
(By Delegates Campbell and Mezzatesta)
[Introduced March 10, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Education.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article one, chapter
eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to school
personnel; definitions; and adding an attendance director to
the definition of "central office administrator."
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article one, chapter eighteen-a of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
§18A-1-1. Definitions.
The definitions contained in section one, article one of
chapter eighteen shall be applicable to this chapter. In
addition, the following words used in this chapter and in any
proceedings pursuant thereto shall, unless the context clearly
indicates a different meaning, be construed as follows:
(a) "School personnel" shall mean all personnel employed bya county board of education whether employed on a regular full-
time basis, an hourly basis or otherwise. School personnel shall
be comprised of two categories: Professional personnel and
service personnel.
(b) "Professional personnel" shall mean persons who meet the
certification and/or licensing requirements of the state, and
shall include the professional educator and other professional
employees.
(c) "Professional educator" shall be synonymous with and
shall have the same meaning as "teacher" as defined in section
one, article one, chapter eighteen of this code. Professional
educators shall be classified as:
(1) "Classroom teacher": The professional educator who has
direct instructional or counseling relationship with pupils,
spending the majority of his time in this capacity.
(2) "Principal": The professional educator who as agent of
the board has responsibility for the supervision, management and
control of a school or schools within the guidelines established
by said board. The major area of such responsibility shall be
the general supervision of all the school and all school
activities involving pupils, teachers and other school personnel.
(3) "Supervisor": The professional educator who, whether by
this or other appropriate title, is responsible for working
primarily in the field with professional and/or other personnel
in instructional and other school improvement.
(4) "Central office administrator": The superintendent,associate superintendent, assistant superintendent, attendance
director and other professional educators, whether by these or
other appropriate titles, who are charged with the administering
and supervising of the whole or some assigned part of the total
program of the county-wide school system.
(d) "Other professional employee" shall mean that person
from another profession who is properly licensed and is employed
to serve the public schools and shall include a registered
professional nurse, licensed by the West Virginia board of
examiners for registered professional nurses and employed by a
county board of education, who has completed either a two-year
(sixty-four semester hours) or a three-year (ninety-six semester
hours) nursing program.
(e) "Service personnel" shall mean those who serve the
school or schools as a whole, in a nonprofessional capacity,
including such areas as secretarial, custodial, maintenance,
transportation, school lunch and as aides.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to add an attendance
director to the definition of "central office administrator."
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.