SB 650
Relating to full-time interventionists
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Bill overview
This bill modifies West Virginia’s education regulations regarding student-teacher ratios in early childhood and elementary classrooms. It allows a full-time interventionist, hired to work in up to two classrooms, to satisfy the requirements for early childhood assistant teachers, aides, or paraprofessionals in those classrooms. Part-time interventionists can only satisfy the requirements for one classroom. The bill also clarifies that county boards can use full-time interventionists instead of other support staff to meet student-teacher ratios.
Key provisions
- A full-time interventionist assigned to up to two classrooms can satisfy the requirements for early childhood assistant teachers, aides, or paraprofessionals in those classrooms.
- Part-time interventionists can only satisfy the requirements for one classroom.
- County boards may use full-time interventionists instead of other support staff to meet student-teacher ratios.
- The bill clarifies that a county board may add interventionists to first, second, and third grade classrooms if needed, starting in 2023-2024.
- The bill maintains the pupil-teacher ratio limits established in 1983.
- It allows for exceptions to pupil-teacher ratios in specific circumstances, subject to state superintendent approval.
- Teachers in grades one through three, or classrooms with those grades, are capped at the specified pupil-teacher ratio.
- Principals are required to assign students equitably among teachers.
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