18-2E-1 Legislative purpose
18-2E-1a Standards, assessment and accountability programs; duties of the state board
18-2E-2 National assessment of educational progress program testing
18-2E-3a Honors and advanced placement programs
18-2E-3b Placement advisory committee established
18-2E-3f Building the basics early childhood curriculum; legislative findings; state board rule
18-2E-4 Better schools accountability; school, school district and statewide school report cards
18-2E-4a Exception to requirement of mailing school report cards
18-2E-5 Process for improving education; education standards; statewide assessment program; accountability measures; Office of Education Performance Audits; school accreditation and school system approval; intervention to correct low performance
18-2E-5a County superintendent employment contract
18-2E-5d Standards for the duration of school bus transportation times for students to and from school
18-2E-6 Falsifying reports; penalty
18-2E-7 Providing for instruction and learning in all public schools
18-2E-8 Creating jobs through education
18-2E-8a Electronic portfolio repealed
18-2E-8c The “Robert C. Beach” vocational agriculture credit
18-2E-8d Further expressions of legislative intent with respect to this article; parental consent for substitute classes
18-2E-8e Veteran’s honors funeral assistant community service program
18-2E-8f Creating the “West Virginia Remembers Program;” rules
18-2E-9 West Virginia virtual school
18-2E-10 Third Grade Success Act; multi-tiered system of support for early literacy and numeracy in kindergarten through grade three; pre-service and in-service teacher training; notice to parent or guardian; third grade retention policy with exceptions; intervent
18-2E-8g Creating successful careers through agricultural education
18-2E-11 Advanced Career Education
18-2E-12 Mountain State Digital Literacy Project
18-2E-11a Nursing career pathway
18-2E-13 Establishment of vocational math class

Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 18 > Article 2E - High Quality Educational Programs

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • board: means a county board of education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • Career clusters: means broad groupings of related occupations. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing, engraving, writing, or otherwise. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Judgment: includes decrees and orders for the payment of money, or the conveyance or delivery of land or personal property, or some interest therein, or any undertaking, bond or recognizance which has the legal effect of a judgment. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • School: means the students and teachers assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • State board: means the West Virginia Board of Education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • State superintendent: means the state superintendent of free Schools. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • superintendent: means a county superintendent of schools. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • Teacher: means a teacher, supervisor, principal, superintendent, public school librarian or any other person regularly employed for instructional purposes in a public school in this state. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
  • Town: includes a city, village or town, and the word "council" any body or board, whether composed of one or more branches, which is authorized to make ordinances for the government of a city, town, or village. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
  • Work-based learning: means a structured activity that correlates with and is mutually supportive of the school-based learning of the student and includes specific objectives to be learned by the student as a result of the activity. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1