West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB2411: To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards
Status: Passed both chambers, April 12, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to pass a minimum of one credit of computer science, establish requirements for the classes, establish rulemaking, and create teaching positions, and requirements for those teaching positions.
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §18-2-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring all West Virginia high school students to pass a minimum of one credit of computer science; defining computer science; allowing computer science credit to be earned in grades eight through twelve; establishing requirements for the classes; allowing computer science credit to substitute for one math credit or one personalized education plan credit; requiring the computer science credit to be approved for one credit in career technical education if the credit is relevant to the program of st.
From the enrolled text, April 11, 2025:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §18-2-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring all West Virginia high school students to pass a minimum of one credit of computer science; defining computer science; allowing computer science credit to be earned in grades eight through twelve; establishing requirements for the classes; allowing computer science credit to substitute for one math credit or one personalized education plan credit; requiring the computer science credit to be approved for one credit in career technical education if the credit is relevant to the program of study; requiring computer science course if used to fulfil a math credit to be denoted as the equivalent of a high school math course on the student's transcript for certain purpose; requiring West Virginia Board of Education rules detailing how certain credit fulfillment is to be granted; requiring West Virginia Board of Education to make available to all public schools a list of course options that can meet the requirements for this computer science credit; and allowing the West Virginia Board of Education to adopt rules to administer the computer science credit provisions. article 2. required courses of instruction. §18-2-9. Required courses of instruction. (a) (1) In all public, private, parochial, and denominational schools located within this state there shall be given prior to the …