Lawmakers Change Manchin's Good-Grades-To-Drive Bill

Chronic truancy, school-related crimes and disrupting the classroom would cost students their driver's licenses, under legislation amended and advanced by a House Education subcommittee.

But as The Register-Herald reports, "originally, the governor had proposed yanking operator’s cards from students who failed to maintain a 'C' average in school."

Opposed to that approach, the panel changed the bill so it "merely says a student must be 'making satisfactory progress' toward earning a high school diploma," the Beckley newspaper said.