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WV Code § 18-5-43 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5. County Board of Education|§18-5-43. Duty of the County Board of Education to Report the County-Wide Productive and Safe School Plans to the West Virginia Board of Education

[Repealed.]
WV Code § 18-5-46 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5. County Board of Education|§18-5-46. Requiring Teacher to Change Grade Prohibited; Teacher Recommendation Relating to Promotion

(a) No teacher may be required by a principal or any other person to change a students grade on either an individual assignment or a report card unless there is clear and convincing evidence that there was a mathematical error in calculating the students grade.(b) The teachers recommendation relating to whether a student should be promoted to the next grade level shall be a primary consideration when making such a determination.
WV Code § 18-5-47 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5. County Board of Education|§18-5-47. County Board Flood Insurance Requirements

(a) Each county board shall maintain flood insurance on each insurable building that it owns and that meets one or both of the following requirements:(1) The building is within the identified special flood hazard area which is the area on a flood hazard boundary map or a flood insurance rate map that is identified as an "A zone", a numbered "A zone" or an "AE zone" or regulatory one hundred year floodplain and the building has a replacement value that is greater than $300,000; or(2) The building has been damaged in a previous flood and flood insurance is required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.(b) Each county board also shall maintain flood insurance on the contents of each insurable building that it owns and that meets one or both of the requirements set forth in subsection (a) of this section.(c) The buildings and the contents of those buildings required to be insured by this section shall be insured at the maximum amounts available through the National Flood Insurance Program or the estimated replacement value of the structure and contents, whichever is less.
WV Code § 18-5-49 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5. County Board of Education|§18-5-49. County Board Exceptional Needs Expenditures From Surplus Funds

Each county board may by policy establish an exceptional needs fund from surpluses for students who are likely to perform better outside of the public school setting. The policy may include:(1) Allowing the county board to use excess funds or donated funds for expenditures related to services and materials necessary for that students educational success that are not met within the public education school district;(2) The amount of funds that is to be deposited into the fund each year which may vary based on availability of surpluses;(3) The qualifying expenses that funds in the fund may be used for;(4) Measures for protecting against improper use of the funds which may include auditing all expenditures related to an individual student for services outside of the public education district;(5) The conditions under which payments from the Exceptional Needs Success Fund are to cease;(6) Eligibility requirements for education service providers that can accept payments from the fund;(7) A requirement that any overpayments recaptured from refunded expenditures revert to the Exceptional Student Success Fund; and(8) Any other provision the county board determines appropriate.
WV Code § 18-5A-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5A. Local School Involvement|§18-5A-1. Intent and Purpose of Article

The intent of this article is to facilitate and encourage the involvement of the school community in the operation of the local schools to improve educational quality. This article is intended to establish processes at each school which provide opportunities for involvement of the school community in the operation of the local schools and to support local initiatives to improve school performance. It is not the intent of this article to restrict the ability of the county board of education in its efforts to effect county-wide school improvements.
WV Code § 18-5A-3a (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5A. Local School Involvement|§18-5A-3a. Waivers of Statutes Granted to Public Schools Pursuant to Recommendations Submitted by Local School Improvement Councils; Limitations

(a) The Legislature hereby grants a waiver from the statute or statutes indicated for the following school or schools pursuant to and for the purposes enumerated in the written statement recommending the waiver, with supporting reasons, approved by the local school improvement council of the respective schools and recommended by the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability in accordance with the provisions of section three of this article. The grant of a waiver to a statute means that the school or schools granted the waiver may implement the actions as specifically described in their written statement notwithstanding the provisions of this code from which they are specifically waived. These waivers are limited to the purposes as specifically described in the statement upon which the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability made its recommendation for a waiver to the Legislature and are expressly repealed for any modification or implementation of the described actions which changes those purposes. However, nothing in this section prohibits a local school improvement council school that has been granted a waiver from submitting a request to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability for modifications, subject to approval in accordance with section three of this article.(b) The following waivers are granted:(1) Section two-b, article three, chapter eighteen-a of this code is waived for the schools of Cabell County for the purpose of implementing a comprehensive new teacher induction program, which purposes are as more specifically described in the schools written statement approved by the county board and submitted to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability on February 24, 2011.(2) Section one-a, article eight, chapter eighteen of this code is waived for the schools of Marshall County for the purpose of increasing the compulsory school attendance age in Marshall County from seventeen to eighteen years of age as a part of its countywide dropout prevention initiative as requested by letter dated January 4, 2016, and recommended by the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability on January 18, 2016.(3) Section one-a, article eight, chapter eighteen of this code is waived for the schools of Wyoming County for the purpose of increasing the compulsory school attendance age in Wyoming County from seventeen to eighteen years of age as a part of its countywide dropout prevention initiative as requested by letter dated February 25, 2016 and recommended by the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability on February 25, 2016.
WV Code § 18-5A-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5A. Local School Involvement|§18-5A-4. State Board to Establish Criteria for Selecting Schools of Excellence; Annual School of Excellence Awards

The state Board of Education shall promulgate rules, in accordance with the provisions of article three-b, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, outlining criteria for the identification of schools of excellence. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, improvement in student achievement in comparison to state and national norms, improvement in reducing drop-out rates, improvement in standardized test scores, implementation of advanced or innovative programs, implementation of the goals and purposes of jobs through education as provided in section eight, article two-e of this chapter, improvement in parent and community involvement, improvement in parent, teacher and student satisfaction, improvement in student attendance and other factors which promote excellence in education. Such rules shall be promulgated by January 1, 1991. Such rules may not prohibit any school from applying for consideration as a school of excellence.Each year, the state board shall select one high school, one middle or junior high school and one elementary school within each regional educational service agency district, and one vocational school selected on a statewide basis to be awarded school of excellence status.The rules promulgated by the state board shall outline appropriate methods of recognizing and honoring the students, teachers and other employees and parents or members of the school community who have contributed to excellence in education at the school.
WV Code § 18-5B-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-1. Title

This article shall be known as the "School Innovation Zones Act".
WV Code § 18-5B-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-2. Legislative Findings and Purpose

(a) Legislative findings. -- The Legislature finds that:(1) Decades of school improvement literature substantiate that schools where the principal uses a collaborative and distributed approach to leadership and where the teachers have a unity of purpose, operate in a cohesive learning-centered culture and implement consistent, pervasive and research-based approaches to learning, can and do improve student learning;(2) As in all enterprises, rules are established in public education to manage the resources efficiently, allot time among the activities and processes required and ensure attention to the goals mandated, but rules, by their nature, also limit the flexibility of professional educators to engage in those activities and implement those approaches that may best improve the learning of their students for the twenty-first century;(3) Allowing individual schools to seek and receive exceptions from certain statutes, policies, rules and interpretations through the creation of school innovation zones will provide them greater control over important educational factors that impact student achievement, such as curriculum, personnel, organization of the school day, organization of the school year, technology utilization and the delivery of educational services to improve student learning; and(4) Providing greater flexibility at innovation zone schools will enable school-level, professional educators to exercise more fully their professional judgment to improve student learning for the twenty-first century by instituting creative and innovative practices.(b) Intent and purpose. -– The intent and purpose of this article is to:(1) Provide for the establishment of school innovation zones to improve educational performance;(2) Provide principals and teachers at schools approved as innovation zones with greater flexibility and control to meet the needs of a diverse population of students by removing certain policy, rule, interpretive and statutory constraints;(3) Provide a testing ground for innovative educational reform programs and initiatives to be applied on an individual school level;(4) Provide information regarding the effects of specific innovations and policies on student achievement;(5) Document educational strategies that enhance student success; and(6) Increase the accountability of the state's public schools for student achievement as measured by the state assessment programs and local assessment processes identified by the schools.
WV Code § 18-5B-4 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-4. Innovation Zones; Required Plans; Plan Approval; State Board Rule

(a) The rule promulgated by the state board pursuant to section three of this article also shall include at least the following:(1) Each school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools or subdivision or department of a school designated as an innovation zone or seeking designation as an innovation zone in accordance with this article shall develop an innovation zone plan;(2) The innovation zone plan shall contain:(A) A description of the programs, policies or initiatives the school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools or subdivision or department of a school intends to implement as an innovative strategy to improve student learning if the plan is approved in accordance with section five of this article;(B) A list of all county and state board rules, policies and interpretations, and all statutes, if any, identified as prohibiting or constraining the implementation of the plan, including an explanation of the specific exceptions to the rules, policies and interpretations and statutes required for plan implementation. A school, a group of schools, a subdivision or department of a group of schools or a subdivision or department of a school may not request an exception nor may an exception be granted from any of the following:(i) An assessment program administered by the West Virginia Department of Education;(ii) Any provision of law or policy required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law No. 107-110 or other federal law; and(iii) Section seven, article two and sections seven-a, seven-b, eight and eight-b, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code, except as provided in section eight of this article; and(C) Any other information the state board requires.(3) The innovation zone plan may include:(A) An emphasis in the early childhood through intermediate grade levels on ensuring that each student is prepared fully at each grade level, including additional intervention strategies at grade levels three and eight to reinforce the preparation of students who are not prepared fully for promotion, or an emphasis in the secondary grade levels on ensuring that each student is prepared fully for college or other post-secondary education, as applicable for the school; and(B) An emphasis on innovative strategies that allows academically advanced students to pursue academic learning above grade level or not available through the normal curriculum at the school.(b) Each school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools or subdivision or department of a school designated or seeking designation as an innovation zone shall submit its innovation zone plan to the school's employees, the county superintendent and county board having jurisdiction over the school, the state board, and the state superintendent in accordance with section five of this article.
WV Code § 18-5B-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-6. Employee Approval of Innovation Plan Application and Plan; Transfer of Employees

(a) An employee shall be eligible to vote in accordance with the provisions of this section if: (1) The employee is regularly employed at the school; and (2) the employee's primary job duties will be affected by the implementation of the innovation zone plan. The panel created in subsection (c) of this section and the principal shall determine which employees are eligible to vote in accordance with this subsection. No employee may be eligible to vote unless both the panel and the principal determine that the employee is eligible to vote.(b) A secret ballot vote at a special meeting of all employees regularly employed at the school who are eligible to vote in accordance with this section shall be conducted to determine the following:(1) The level of employee commitment to apply for designation as an innovation zone in accordance with section three of this article; and(2) The approval of an innovation zone plan as required by section five of this article.(c) A panel consisting of the elected officers of the faculty Senate of the school or schools, one representative of the service personnel employed at the school and three parent members appointed by the local school improvement council shall call the meeting required in subsection (b) of this section, conduct the votes and certify the results to the principal, the county superintendent and the president of the county board. The panel shall provide notice of the special meeting to all employees eligible to vote at least two weeks prior to the meeting and shall provide an absentee ballot to each employee eligible to vote who cannot attend the meeting to vote.(d) At least eighty percent of the employees who are eligible to vote in accordance with this section must vote to apply for designation as an innovation zone and to approve the school's innovation zone plan before the level of staff commitment at the school is sufficient for the school to apply for designation and before the plan is approved by the school.(e) An employee regularly employed at a school applying for or designated as an innovation zone whose job duties may be affected by implementation of the innovation zone plan or proposed plan may request a transfer to another school in the school district. The county board shall make every reasonable effort to accommodate the transfer.
WV Code § 18-5B-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-7. Progress Reviews and Annual Reports

(a) At least annually, the state board or its designated committee shall review the progress of the development or implementation of an innovation zone plan. If, following such a review, the state board determines that a designated school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools, subdivision or department of a school or a school created by a state institution of higher education in accordance with section nine of this article has not made adequate progress toward developing or implementing its plan, the board shall submit a report to the designated school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools, subdivision or department of a school or a school created by a state institution of higher education in accordance with section nine of this article identifying its areas of concern. The state board or its designated committee may conduct an additional review within six months of submitting a report in accordance with this section. If, following such additional review, the state board or its designated committee determines that the designated school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools, subdivision or department of a school or a school created by a state institution of higher education in accordance with section nine of this article has not made adequate progress toward developing or implementing its innovation zone plan, the state board may revoke the designation as an innovation zone or, if the innovation zone plan has been approved in accordance with section five of this article, rescind its approval of the plan.(b) The state board shall provide an annual report on innovation zones and the progress of innovation zone plans to the Legislative Oversight Committee for Educational Accountability.
WV Code § 18-5B-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-8. Teacher Vacancies in an Innovation Zone; Job Postings Exceeding Certain Qualifications and Requirements; Approval of Postings

A school, group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools, or a subdivision or department of a school whose school innovation zone plan has been approved in accordance with section five of this article may make a job posting for a teacher vacancy at the school, the group of schools, the subdivision or department of a group of schools, or the subdivision or department of a school designated as an innovation zone that sets forth standards or qualifications that exceed the standards and qualifications provided in section seven-a, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code: Provided, That teachers in the county approve the job posting by majority vote: Provided, however, That the county superintendent administers the vote and the record of the vote remains on file in the personnel office of the county board until the school group of schools, subdivision or department of a group of schools, or a subdivision or department of a school is no longer designated as an innovation zone.
WV Code § 18-5B-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5B. School Innovation Zones Act|§18-5B-14. Termination of Funding for School Innovation Zones and Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zones

No school, group of schools, district, subdivision or department of a group of schools, or a subdivision or department of a school designated or to be designated as an Innovation Zone or Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone shall receive any funding pursuant to this article after June 30, 2016.
WV Code § 18-5C-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5C. Committee Reorganization and Collaborative Team Waivers|§18-5C-1. Purpose

The purposes of this article are as follows:(1) To facilitate and encourage teacher collaboration by empowering schools to create alternative decision-making processes that address school and classroom improvement. The intent is to authorize reorganization or consolidation of certain school committees and teams required by state board rules, including the Strategic Planning Committee, the Technology Team and the School Support Team; and(2) To recognize that schools in this state differ greatly in enrollment, grade configuration, demographics and student needs and to provide teachers and principals with flexibility to determine the types of committees and teams that are needed to move the school forward.
WV Code § 18-5C-3 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5C. Committee Reorganization and Collaborative Team Waivers|§18-5C-3. Rulemaking

By October 1, 2010, the state board shall promulgate a legislative rule in accordance with article three-b, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to implement the provisions of this article. The rule shall include a process for schools to appeal to the state board for approval of an application under this article for which approval has been denied by the county superintendent or county board, or both.
WV Code § 18-5D-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 18. Education|Article 5D. West Virginia Feed to Achieve Act|§18-5D-1. Short Title

This act shall be known and may be cited as the West Virginia Feed to Achieve Act.