EDUCATION BILL ADVANCES House Education Committee OKs Education Reform Bill; Measure Goes To Full House
Reported by: Associated Press
Web Producer: Jeff Morris
Reported: Mar. 19, 2013 5:06 PM EDT
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Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
The West Virginia House Education Committee unanimously approved Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's amended education bill and sent it to the full House of Delegates.
The House committee made no amendments to the bill on Tuesday.
The bill emerged from the Senate on Monday after a number of last-minute changes were put in place to appease teachers' groups.
The bill will no longer allow the non-profit Teach for America program to send teachers into the state's classrooms. It amends hiring practices, but seniority will still be taken into account.
Tomblin had initially proposed freeing up 12 non-instructional days in the school calendar to use as classroom time. The amended bill keeps six of those 12 days.
The bill could be voted on by the full House as soon as Thursday.
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