§18-5B-1. Title
This article shall be known as the "School Innovation Zones Act".
§18-5B-10. Exceptions to Statutes Granted to Innovation Zones; Limitations
(a) The Legislature hereby grants an exception to the statute or statutes indicated for the following schools pursuant to and for the purposes enumerated in their innovation zone plans approved by the state board at its meeting on the date specified. The grant of an exception to a statute means that the school or schools […]
§18-5B-11. Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Innovation Zone Act
(a) Legislative findings, intent and purpose. The Legislature finds that: (1) High school graduation is an essential milestone for all West Virginia students and impacts the future success of the individual, community and state;
§18-5B-12. School System Collaborative Innovation Zone; Requirements to Qualify; Application for Designation; Required Plans for Innovation Zones; Plan Approval; Waiver of Statutes, Policies, Rules or Interpretations; Progress Reviews and Annual Reports; Teacher Vacancies, Job Postings and Approval
(a) The Legislature makes the following findings and expressions of legislative intent: (1) The Legislature created a performance-based accreditation system in 1988 and has amended these provisions several times, significantly in 1998 to set forth a process for improving education consisting of four elements: (i) High quality education standards; (ii) an assessment of the performance […]
§18-5B-13. Innovation School District Act; Legislative Findings, Intent and Purpose; Eligibility; Application; Innovation Plan and Plan Approval; Designation; Waiver of Statutes, Policies, Rules or Interpretations; Exceptions; Progress Reviews and Annual Reports; State Board Rule
(a) Legislative findings: (1) High school completion is an essential milestone for all West Virginia students and impacts the future success of the individual, community and state as well as providing the pathway to and appreciation for life-long learning endeavors;
§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.
§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 […]
§18-5B-3. School Innovation Zones; Application for Designation; State Board Rule
(a) A school, a group of schools, a subdivision or department of a group of schools, or a subdivision or department of a school may be designated as an innovation zone in accordance with this article. (b) The state board shall promulgate a rule, including an emergency rule if necessary, in accordance with article three-b, […]
§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 […]
§18-5B-5. Approval of Innovation Zone Plans; Waiver of Statutes, Policies, Rules or Interpretations
(a) 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: (1) Submit its innovation zone plan to each employee regularly employed at the school if the employee's primary job duties would be affected by the […]
§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 […]
§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 […]
§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 […]
§18-5B-9. Establishment of New Innovation Zone Schools by State Institutions of Higher Education
(a) A state institution of higher education may establish a new innovation zone school subject to the following: (1) The school will be under the jurisdiction of the state institution of higher education;