Adopted by House 4-10-2009
SB249 H ED AMT 4-8
Your committee on education moves to amend the title of the
bill, by striking the title and inserting in lieu thereof a new
title to read as follows:
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-45 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to the annual school calendar; making
additional findings; providing forty-three week "window" for
employment term; adding additional specificity to types of meetings
and participants on instructional support and enhancement days;
providing noninstructional days for opening school are prior to the
first day of instructional term rather than certain date, allowing
additional days to be scheduled and reserving at least one day for
classroom preparation by teacher; consolidating provisions
applicable to accrued instructional time and allowing use for full
days but not to avoid scheduling one hundred eighty days; providing
for reporting days of accrued instructional time along with
separate days; specifying accounting of accrued instructional time
at schools with certain different grade levels and for county-wide
use; providing for rescheduling of non instructional time on or
after February 1, if one hundred eighty separate days as scheduled
are not possible; exceptions; providing for additional lengthening
of school day on or after February 1, to make up for lost
instructional time and avoid rescheduling professional development under certain condition; providing for effect of 2009 amendment
beginning 2010-11 school year; increasing the minimum allotment to
classroom teachers and librarians of faculty senate funds; and
making various technical and preferred language changes.