W. Va. Code R. § 126-73-7

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 126-73-7 - Instructional Term

7.1. The school calendar shall provide an instructional term for students of no less than 180 separate days of instruction or the equivalent of such time.

7.2. The minimum instructional term may be decreased by order of the State Superintendent of Schools in any county declared a federal disaster area and in any county subject to an emergency or disaster declaration by the Governor where the event causing the declaration is substantially related to a reduction of instructional days.

7.3. Equivalent instructional time may be usedonly for the purposes specified in this policy and may not be used for any other purposes or applied in any other manner to avoid one hundred eighty separate days of instruction.

7.4. If it is not possible to provide 180 separate or equivalent instructional days within the school calendar as originally scheduled, the county board must schedule instruction on any available non-instructional day (other than holidays, election day, or Saturdays and Sundays), regardless of the purpose for which the day was originally scheduled, or use a day that was scheduled as an out-of-calendar day. County boards have the ability to apply for a waiver in accordance with the provisions of W. Va. Code § 18-5-45(o) to assist with meeting the mandatory 180 days of instruction.

7.5. If an out-of-calendar day is used as a make-up instructional day, the originally scheduled instructional day that was cancelled becomes the out-of-calendar day (unpaid day). In accordance with W. Va. Code § 18A-5-2, an employee's pay is not to be adjusted during a pay period because of this revision in the school calendar.

7.6. Pursuant to W. Va. 126CSR42, WVBE Policy 2510, Assuring the Quality of Education: Regulations for Education Programs, co-curricular activities may, by their nature, be scheduled without regard to the use of equivalent instructional time.

7.7. Extracurricular activities do not count toward meeting the minimum instructional time for an instructional day. Equivalent instructional time may not be used to accommodate the scheduling of extracurricular activities during instructional days.

W. Va. Code R. § 126-73-7