WV HB3208

Reduces the minimum instructional term for students from 180 days to 160 days per school year, while maintaining the 180-day employment term for school personnel

Requires county boards of education to provide built-in breaks for instructors during both fall and spring semesters

Directs county boards to consider scheduling these breaks after standardized and required testing periods

The 20 days reduced from the instructional calendar are to be incorporated into the new mandatory break periods for instructors and students

Maintains existing provisions prohibiting the use of equivalent instructional time or alternative instruction methods to make up days lost due to work stoppages or strikes