H. B. 2375
(By Delegate Fragale)
[Introduced January 17, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Education.]
A BILL to amend article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section fourteen,
relating to requiring all schools to post and make available
to the public the schedules of teachers and staff and
providing a penalty for not having the schedules available by
the second week of the school year.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
fourteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. SCHOOL PERSONNEL.
§18A-2-14. School personnel schedules open to public; penalty.
(a) All schools shall post and make available to the public a complete listing of the schedule for every teacher and staff
personnel for that school. Copies shall be posted and made readily
available in the school's office by the second week of the school
year and freely distributed to staff and to the public without
having to comply with the state's freedom of information act.
(b) If by the second week of the school year, a school fails
to post and make available to the public the teacher and staff
personnel schedules as provided in this section, both the principal
of the school and the county superintendent of that school shall be
fined five hundred dollars.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require every school to
post and make available to the public the schedule for every
teacher and staff personnel for each school, and if a school fails
to do so, the principal of that school and the county
superintendent of that school shall be fined five hundred dollars
each.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.