The Senate Education Committee met Thursday and approved the creation of the Subcommittee on School Choice.
Senator Robert Karnes (R-Upshur) will serve as chair of the subcommittee, and Senators Mike Azinger (R-Wood) and Robert Plymale (D-Wayne) will serve as members.
Following this decision, Senator John Unger (D-Berkeley) asked that SB 184 relating to the privitization of higher education be sent to the Education Committee for discussion, once it is out of the Government Organization Committee.
Unger said the Education Committee need to have a say in the bill’s progress, as it pertains to an aspect of education.
“This is an urgent matter,” Unger said, since the decision on SB 184 could affect what direction the state goes in to fund education overall.
The next meeting for the Senate Education Committee has not yet been announced.
