SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 20

(By Senators Wooton, Craigo, Jackson,

Walker,

White, Buckalew, Scott, Ross Sharpe and Schoonover)



Requesting the Department of Education and the Division of Juvenile Services within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety to continue studying the use of technology to support education in nontraditional settings and report their findings and recommendations to the Legislature.

Whereas, The need exists to provide secure and meaningful educational opportunities to juveniles in nontraditional settings; and
Whereas, The Department of Education and the Division of Juvenile Services within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety have begun the work of examining ways to use technology to improve education in nontraditional settings by looking first at the state's five existing predisposition detention centers; and
Whereas, The group assembled to study the issues presented has prepared and submitted a report with its recommendations to the Legislature; and
Whereas, It is a prudent use of existing resources for the same or a similar study group to oversee the implementation of those recommendations; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Department of Education and the Division of Juvenile Services within the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety in consultation with the Distance Learning Coordinating Council are hereby requested to work together to oversee the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report presented to the 1998, regular session of the Legislature and report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance of the Legislature by the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight.
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NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to continue the study group which has examined the use of technology in nontraditional settings so that it can oversee implementation of its recommendations.

This resolution is recommended for passage in the 1998 regular session by the Legislative Task Force on Juvenile Foster Care, Detention and Placement.