HB4014 S ED AMT

Hager 7871

The Committee on Education moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. For House Bill No. 4014 -- A Bill to amend and reenact §18‑2E‑5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating generally to the process for improving education; removing reference to the No Child Left Behind Act; adding digital literacy to the list of areas that the State Board of Education is required to adopt high-quality education standards in; making findings with respect to the Legislature’s constitutional authority; defining “academic standards”; recognizing the state board’s adoption and renaming of certain standards; establishing the Academic Standards Evaluation Panel; establishing membership of the panel; establishing duties of the panel; requiring withdrawal from Memorandum of Agreement relating to adoption of Common Core State Standards; requiring withdrawal as a governing state in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium; establishing criteria for any academic standards adopted by the state board; requiring the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education and Accountability to review any proposed rules relating to academic standards; removing requirement for state board rule establishing comprehensive statewide student assessment program; removing requirement that assessment be aligned with certain standards and associated alterative; removing state board authority to require ACT EXPLORE and ACT PLAN or other comparable assessments; requiring state board to review and approve a summative assessment for certain grade levels to assess in certain subject areas; requiring summative assessment include students as required by certain federal laws; requiring that summative assessment meet certain requirements; requiring state board to review and approve a college readiness assessment for students in the eleventh grade; requiring college readiness assessment to be administered at least once to each eleventh grade student; requiring college readiness assessment meet certain requirements; requiring state board to review and approve career readiness assessments and assessment based credentials; providing that career readiness assessment is voluntary for students; requiring that assessment-based credential be available to any student that achieves at the required level on the required assessments; requiring career readiness assessments meet certain requirements; prohibiting the implementation of any assessment developed specifically to align with Common Core State Standards; requiring online assessment preparation for any online assessment; requiring state board to develop a plan and make recommendations regarding end-of-course assessments and student accountability measures; establishing reporting requirements; requiring the state board to develop a policy that sets forth accountability measures for students taking the comprehensive statewide assessment; establishing maximum percentage of instructional time for summative assessment; and removing required report to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability pertaining to on-site review finding appeals.