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                                ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 4118

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Senators Gaspard, Rinehart, Bauer, Johnson and Saling; by Superintendent of Public Instruction request)

Read first time 3/4/85.

AN ACT Relating to the school administrators' academy; adding new sections to chapter 28A.03 RCW; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.03 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Recognizing the importance of highly skilled administrators to our state's education system, the superintendent of public instruction shall develop, in cooperation with an academy advisory committee, and implement an annual school administrators' academy.

          (2) The superintendent of public instruction shall establish the academy advisory committee.  The academy advisory committee shall be composed of twelve members appointed by the superintendent of public instruction and include persons who are from the state board of education, school administrators, classroom teachers, local school directors, principals, from institutions of higher education offering school administrator training programs, and from the private sector.

          (3) The superintendent of public instruction shall appoint an academy director to serve as staff director for the academy and chairperson of the advisory board.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.03 RCW to read as follows:

          The plan for the annual school administrators' academy shall focus on methods of developing and refining the administrative and leadership skills of school administrators.  The plan shall review and complement the staff development programs offered by state professional associations.  The plan shall provide for at least the following subjects to be covered:

          (1) Instructional leadership;

          (2) Clinical supervision;

          (3) Research and communications;

          (4) School-community relations;

          (5) Planning and goal setting;

          (6) Optimum use of the school day and year; and

          (7) Cost-sharing provisions for participating administrators.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     The superintendent of public instruction shall submit a preliminary plan for the school administrators' academy to the legislature and the state board of education by December 31, 1985.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     The sum of forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for planning for the school administrators' academy for the 1985-86 fiscal year.