THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 AGENDA  

9:00 a.m. CALL TO ORDER - WELCOME - INTRODUCTIONS - President Lowell E. Johnson  

WELCOME – COMMENTS - Superintendent Mark A. Manchin - McDowell County Schools  

RECOGNITION(S)  

DELEGATION(S)  

APPROVAL OF AGENDA - (Action)  

CONSENT AGENDA - (Action)  

- Approval of Minutes - (Action)  

- Routine Business  

County Boards of Education, RESAs, and Multi-County Vocational Centers Budget Supplement and Transfer Requests for 2006-07 - (Action)  

Amendment - Greenbrier County Comprehensive Educational Facilities Plan (CEFP) - (Action)  

Waivers of West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) Policies and Regulations, Superintendent's Interpretations and State Statutes and Legislative Rules - (Action)  

Senate Bill 227, W. Va. Code §18A-4-7a, Transfer of Teachers After Five Days Prior to Starting Instruction - (Information)  

Approval of One New Content Specialization for One Institute of Higher Education - (Action)  

The Quality of Teacher Preparation in West Virginia - (Information)  

Proposed Official State Multiple List of Instructional Materials for English Language Arts K-12 (Reading/Literature) - (Action)  

Final Individual School Education Performance Audit Report for Hurricane Middle School, Putnam County - (Action)  

Second Follow-Up Individual School Education Performance Audit for Clay Middle School, Clay County - (Action)  

REPORTS - Board Member/Committee Reports  

Board Member Reports - (Information/Action)  

• North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey - (Information)  

Board Committee Reports - (Information/Action)  

- State Superintendent’s Report  

Personnel - (Information)  

Updates - Lincoln, McDowell, Mingo and/or Hampshire County – (Information/Action)  

Update - Legal Matters - (Information/Action)  

- West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind Annual Report 2005 - 2006 - (Information)  

- Early Identification and Outreach Programs for Hearing Impaired Students in West Virginia - (Information)  

NEW BUSINESS  

- Update on Enhancement of Security at West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind - (Information/Action)  

- WVBE Response to the 2006 Annual Report of the West Virginia Advisory Council for the Education of Exceptional Children (WVACEEC) - (Action)  

- West Virginia Board of Education Personnel - (Action)  

- Board Items for Future Consideration - (Discussion)  

LEGAL and/or PERSONNEL MATTERS - (Action)  

FUTURE MEETINGS - (Information)  

ADJOURNMENT - (Action)