§18-17-8. Continuing Contract Status Established; Dismissal and Suspension Procedures
Before entering upon their duties, all teachers shall execute a contract with the state board, which contract shall state the salary to be paid and shall be in the form prescribed by the state superintendent. Every such contract shall be signed by the teacher and by the president and secretary of the state board. A […]
§18-17-9. Employment of Auxiliary and Service Personnel, Dismissal and Suspension Procedures
The state board is authorized to employ such auxiliary and service personnel as is deemed necessary for meeting the needs of the schools for the deaf and blind. Before entering upon their duties such personnel shall execute with the board a written contract which may be in a letter form and shall state the classification […]
§18-17-1. Continuation; Management; Minimum Salary Scale for All Employees
The West Virginia schools for deaf pupils and blind pupils heretofore established and located at Romney, in Hampshire County, shall be continued and shall be known as the "West Virginia schools for the deaf and the blind." The schools shall be maintained for the care and education of the deaf youth and blind youth of […]
§18-17-2. Admission and Record of Applicants; Special Programs and Services
Deaf and/or blind youth residents in the state, between the ages of five and twenty-three, inclusive, shall be enrolled in the schools on application to the superintendent, until the schools are filled. Applicants shall be admitted by the superintendent on the basis of need and degree of impairment as determined by the schools' admissions committee. […]
§18-17-3. Tuition, Board and Clothing of Pupils; Indigent Clothing Fund
All such deaf pupils and blind pupils shall be admitted to the schools without charge for board and tuition. When not otherwise provided with clothing they shall be furnished therewith by the institution while they are pupils therein, and the superintendent shall make out an account therefor in each case against the county where the […]
§18-17-4. Period of Attendance; Special Admissions
The pupils of said schools may continue therein until completion of the prescribed course of study, or a lesser period of time which the condition and progress of the pupils may justify, as determined by the state Board of Education upon recommendation of the school's superintendent. After all applicants between the prescribed ages of five […]
§18-17-5. Course of Instruction
The course of instruction in the institution shall be prescribed by the state Board of Education with the advice of the superintendent, and shall be as extensive in the intellectual, musical, vocational, and prevocational departments as the capacities and interests of the pupils may require.
§18-17-6. Registration of Deaf and Blind by Assessors
In addition to their other duties the county assessors of the state are hereby required to register the names of all deaf persons and blind persons under eighteen years of age in their respective counties, with the degree and cause of deafness and blindness in each case, as far as can be ascertained from the […]
§18-17-7. Sale of Lands; Application of Proceeds
The state Board of Education may, from time to time, sell and transfer such part or portion of the lands comprising the West Virginia schools for the deaf and the blind as the board may deem surplus to the needs of such schools, and shall expend the proceeds therefrom for the maintenance, operation and improvement […]