Creating WV Constitutional Schools Act of 2025

SB 930, the "West Virginia Constitutional Schools Act of 2025," mandates specific practices in West Virginia public schools starting with the 2025/2026 school year. It requires daily prayer or meditation time, a state-specific pledge of allegiance, and distribution of the West Virginia Constitution to students with mandatory preamble readings. The bill replaces mandatory state curriculum standards ("Next Generation" standards) and statewide standardized testing with district-level choices, allowing schools to adopt classical curricula or develop their own standards, while limiting statewide testing to random samples for research. Districts must also offer optional national standardized tests like the SAT or CLT for parent assessment. This bill directly affects all K-12 public schools in West Virginia.