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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5274

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by  Senators Gaspard, Kiskaddon, Bauer and Smitherman)

Read first time 2/24/87.

AN ACT Relating to compensation of teachers for in-service training and education; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.71 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.71 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Certificated personnel shall receive for each ten clock hours of approved in-service training attended the equivalent of a one credit college quarter course on the salary schedule developed by the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee.

          (2) Certificated personnel shall receive for each ten clock hours of approved continuing education earned, as continuing education is defined by rule adopted by the state board of education, the equivalent of a one credit college quarter course on the salary schedule developed by the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee.

          (3) An approved in-service training program shall be a program approved by a school district board of directors and the development of said program has been participated in by an in-service training task force whose membership is the same as provided under RCW 28A.71.210, or a program offered by an education agency approved to provide in-service for the purposes of continuing education as provided for under rules adopted by the state board of education, or both.

          (4) Clock hours eligible for application to the salary schedule developed by the legislative evaluation and accountability program committee as described in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, shall be those hours acquired after August 31, 1987.