West Virginia House Bill 2412 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 13 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-13 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to restructure the primary and secondary school instructional terms. The bill removes the word “separate” throughout the section as it relates to the number of instructional days in the school calendar. The bill requires that the instructional term for students begin no earlier than August 10 and end no later than June 10, except for schools operates on a balanced calendar. The bill removes preparation for opening and closing school from mandatory list of areas for which remaining noninstructional days may be designated by county school board. The bill designates one noninstructional day for teachers as a preparation day. The bill allows teacher preparation day to be used for other purposes only at teacher’s discretion. The bill increases number of two-hour blocks for faculty senate meetings from four to six. The bill removes requirement that faculty senate meetings be held once every forty-five days. The bill permits accrued minutes to be used for lost instructional days. The bill designates time frames within which faculty senate meetings may take place. The bill requires county boards to first use accrued minutes for early dismissals and late arrivals and requires that any reimagining student instructional days be exhausted prior to using accrued minutes for lost instructional days.

Relating to the public school calendar

Del. Roy Cooper [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-13	House	To House Education
2017-02-13	House	Introduced in House
2017-02-13	House	To Education
2017-02-13	House	Filed for introduction

SB242 (Similar To) 2017-02-23 - To House Education

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	5	45	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2412&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2412%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=2412