Senate Education Committee passes study resolution on SSAC – WV MetroNews

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Senate Education Committee approved a study resolution Monday concerning the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission.

The resolution, which still must be considered by the full Senate, said the legislature’s Joint Committee on Government and Finance would oversee the study during the next year.

Items to be studied include:

–the mission of the WVSSAC

–how effective it is in achieving that mission

–improving the commission’s efficiency

–looking at transparency and accountability of the SSAC and deciding whether a performance evaluation would be appropriate

Sen. Jay Taylor, R-Taylor, who originally had a bill calling for a state takeover of the organization, sponsored an amendment Monday calling for the student to include input from coaches, parents and athletes.

“I’d hate for us just to get a study just from the SSAC itself,” Taylor said. “The bill was getting inputs from all over.”

Education Committee Chair Amy Grady, R-Mason, thought the existing wording in the resolution would be fine but also didn’t oppose Taylor’s amendment.

The amendment passed on a voice vote.

The education committee examined the bill, called the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission Reform Act, for about an hour on Friday afternoon. At the end, Grady said there would be a vote on a study resolution on Monday.