West Virginia

Section

Section

§18-2-1. Creation; composition; appointment, qualifications, terms, and removal of members; offices.

Repealed. Acts, 1947, Reg. Sess., Ch. 72.

§18-2-3. Meetings; compensation and expenses of members.

§18-2-4. Organization; appointment, compensation and duties of secretary.

§18-2-5. Powers and duties generally; specific powers and duties for alternatives that improve student learning.

§18-2-5a. Board rules to be filed with Legislature.

§18-2-5b. Medicaid-eligible children; school health services advisory committee.

§18-2-5c. Birth certificate required upon admission to public school; required notice to local law-enforcement agency of missing children.

§18-2-5d. Duty of board to report guidelines for productive and safe schools.

§18-2-5e. Higher education participation in development and use of public education assessments.

§18-2-5f. Use of student social security numbers.

§18-2-5h. Student Data Accessibility, Transparency and Accountability Act.

§18-2-6. Classification and standardization of schools; standards for degrees and diplomas; certificates of proficiency; establishment of alternative education programs.

§18-2-6a. Sale of healthy beverages and soft drinks in schools.

§18-2-6b. General Educational Development (GED) diploma; legislative findings and intent; examination costs; testing materials and procedures; report required.

§18-2-6c.

§18-2-7. Courses of study; language of instruction.

§18-2-7a. Legislative findings; required physical education; program in physical fitness.

§18-2-7b. Programs in drug prevention and violence reduction.

§18-2-7c. Program in personal finance.

§18-2-7d. Program in workforce preparedness.

§18-2-7e. Business and community partnerships for improving student engagement and preparation; roles of school district leadership and local school improvement councils; future-ready graduate profile.

§18-2-7f. Alternative educational opportunities for elective course credit.

§18-2-7g. Youth Apprenticeship Program.

§18-2-8. Course of study in fire prevention.

§18-2-8a. Hunter safety orientation program.

§18-2-8b. West Virginia Remembers Program; rulemaking.

§18-2-9. Required courses of instruction.

§18-2-9a. Elective courses of instruction on the Bible.

§18-2-9b. Equal Treatment in Primary and Secondary Education Act of 2025.

§18-2-10. Certificates and awards.

§18-2-11. Sabbatical leaves for teachers and certain aides.

§18-2-12. Computer science courses of instruction; learning standards; state board plan development.

§18-2-13. Character education integration.

§18-2-13a. Control of property and business affairs of state educational institutions.

§18-2-13b. Additional authority of state Board of Education concerning revenue bonds for dormitories, homes or refectories.

§18-2-13c. Payroll deductions for employees' participation in group insurance plans.

§18-2-13d. Marshall University.

§18-2-13e. Transfer of property for the use of Marshall University.

§18-2-13f. Responsibility for administration and provision of educational services in state correctional institutions.

§18-2-13g. Procedure for contracting with insurers; licensing of insurer; exemption of certain insurers from premium and annuity taxes.

§18-2-13h. Provision of educational services for school-age juveniles placed in residential facilities for custody and treatment.

§18-2-14. Reports by state Board of Education, state commissioner of public institutions, and chief officers of state educational institutions to Auditor.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

§18-2-15a.

§18-2-16. Establishment and operation of state camp and conference center; rental thereof; expenditures; gifts and donations; county court may erect and equip buildings.

§18-2-16a. Construction of buildings and recreational facilities at state camp and conference center; charges for use; financing by revenue bonds or notes permissible; trustee for holders of bonds or notes; contents of trust agreement.

§18-2-16b. State camp and conference center; property transferred; powers and duties of Commissioner of Agriculture.

Repealed. Acts, 2014 Reg. Sess., Ch. 47.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

Repealed. Acts, 1972 Reg. Sess., Ch. 104

Repealed. Acts, 1972 Reg. Sess., Ch. 104.

Repealed. Acts, 1972 Reg. Sess., Ch. 104.

Repealed. Acts, 1990 3rd. Ex. Sess., Ch. 4.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

§18-2-23a.

§18-2-24. Collaboration of state institutions of higher education having a teacher preparation program with the Center for Professional Development, state board and the regional education service agencies.

§18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools; delegation of authority to West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; authority of commission; approval of rules by state board; incorporation; funds; participation by private and parochial schools and by home-schooled students and participants in the Hope Scholarship Program or in a Microschool or Learning Pod.

§18-2-25a. Management of concussions and head injuries in athletics at West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission member high school or middle school.

§18-2-25b. Emergency action plans for athletics.

§18-2-25c. Defibrillator required at certain events.

§18-2-25d. Clarifying participation for sports events to be based on biological sex of the athlete at birth.

§18-2-25e. Athletic eligibility of transfer students.

§18-2-26. Abolishment and transition of regional education service agencies.

§18-2-27. Authority to contract for programs, services and facilities.

Repealed. Acts, 1990 3rd. Ex. Sess., Ch. 4.

§18-2-29. Competitive grant program for selected schools and school districts.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

§18-2-32. Posthumous high school diplomas.

§18-2-33. Rules for antihazing.

§18-2-34. High school diplomas for surviving veterans of World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Conflict.

§18-2-35. Dress codes requiring school uniforms for students.

§18-2-36. Framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

Repealed. Acts, 2013 Reg. Sess., Ch. 56.

§18-2-39. College and career readiness initiative.

§18-2-40. Suicide prevention awareness training; dissemination of information.

§18-2-40a. Education on and prevention of self-harm behavior and eating disorders.

§18-2-40b. Dissemination of information on suicide prevention.

§18-2-41. Education and Prevention of the Sexual Abuse of Children.

§18-2-42. Providing career and technical education program information to students and parents; transcript of post-secondary credit; career technical education student participation in graduation ceremony.

§18-2-43. Addressing disciplinary action in West Virginia schools.

§18-2-44. Safety While Accessing Technology education program; annual instruction required.

§18-2-45. Patriotic societies; opportunity to speak and recruit at public schools.

§18-2-46. Requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance audits of the West Virginia Department of Education.

§18-2-47. Limitation on cell phones in classrooms; rule-making.

§18-2-48. Air rifles and rimfire rifles permitted for school teams.