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Senate committee debates removing 180‑day requirement and some testing rules for nonpublic schools
Summary
Lawmakers in a Senate committee discussed a bill to exempt nonpublic schools from a 180‑day minimum school year, county approval rules and a state requirement to administer a nationally normed standardized achievement test; sponsors agreed to lay the bill over for amendment after extended debate about accountability and parental information.
At a West Virginia Senate Education Committee meeting, lawmakers debated a bill that would remove several statutory requirements for nonpublic schools, including the 180‑day minimum instructional term and a mandate to administer a nationally normed standardized achievement test.
The bill’s counsel told the committee the measure “removes the requirement for a non public school to observe a minimum instructional term of a hundred and 80 days with an average of 5 hours of instruction per day,” exempts nonpublic schools from approval requirements in West Virginia Code §18‑8‑1(b), and “removes provisions relating to requiring a non public school to administer a nationally normed standardized achievement test.”
Committee members pressed the sponsor, identified in the transcript as the…
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