§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 […]
§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 […]
§18-5-48. Safety and Security Measures for School Facilities; Safe Schools Fund Created
(a) Each county board of education and multicounty vocational center shall annually assess the safety and security of each of the school facilities within its boundaries. Safety and security measures of each facility shall be upgraded when necessary to ensure, to the best of the county board’s ability, the safety of the students within each […]
§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 […]
§18-5-45a. Legislative Findings; Time Lost Due to Work Stoppage or Strike; Effect on Pay and Extracurricular Activities; Closure of Schools Due to Work Stoppage or Strike Prohibited
(a) Legislative findings. (1) The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held, in Jefferson County Bd. of Educ. v. Jefferson County Educ. Assn, 183 W.Va. 15 (1990), that “[p]ublic employees have no right to strike in the absence of express legislation or, at the very least, appropriate statutory provisions for collective bargaining, mediation, and arbitration”.
§18-5-34. Other Authority and Duties of District Boards
The district Board of Education shall exercise such other authority and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law or by the regulations of the state Board of Education.
§18-5-35. Group Insurance
Whenever a majority of the full-time instructional and administrative employees of a county board of education, or a majority of the full-time nonteaching employees of said board shall indicate in writing to the board of Education that it has subscribed to an automobile, a life, health and accident, hospitalization or surgery insurance, or death benefit […]
§18-5-36. Payment for Fire Services on Public School Property
Where a fire company or fire department necessarily renders service in preventing or extinguishing fires upon public school property situated beyond their legal sphere of operation, the county board of education may pay, as a consideration for said services, a reasonable compensation to such fire company or fire department and such expenditures therefor shall be […]
§18-5-36a. Authority to Offer Rewards
A county board of education shall have the authority to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of any person or persons who damage or destroy school property, or who threaten, offer or attempt to do so.
§18-5-39. Establishment of Summer School Programs; Tuition
(a) Inasmuch as the present county school facilities for the most part lie dormant and unused during the summer months, and inasmuch as there are many students who are in need of remedial instruction and others who desire accelerated instruction, it is the purpose of this section to provide for the establishment of a summer […]