WSR 14-20-061 PERMANENT RULES SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION [Filed September 25, 2014, 4:18 p.m., effective October 26, 2014] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: These rule revisions retract the rule revisions to WAC 392-121-257 that were implemented earlier this year in error. Therefore, the WAC section will be restored back to its original wording at the beginning of the 2013-14 school year.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 392-121-257.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.150.290(1) and 28A.415.023.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 14-16-086 on August 4, 2014.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: September 16, 2014.
Randy Dorn
Superintendent of
Public Instruction
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 14-07-005, filed 3/6/14, effective 4/6/14)
WAC 392-121-257 Definition—In-service credits.
As used in this chapter, "in-service credits" means credits determined as follows:
(1) Credits are earned:
(a) After August 31, 1987; and
(b) After the awarding or conferring of the employee's first bachelor's degree.
(2) Credits are earned on or before October 1 of the year for which allocations are being calculated pursuant to this chapter.
(3) Credits are earned in either:
(a) A locally approved in-service training program which means a program approved by a school district board of directors, and meeting standards adopted by the professional educator standards board pursuant to the standards in WAC 181-85-200 and the development of which has been participated in by an in-service training task force whose membership is the same as provided under RCW 28A.415.040; or
(b) A state approved continuing education 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 professional educator standards board pursuant to chapter 181-85 WAC((: Provided, That continuing education credit for educational staff associates pursuant to WAC 181-85-077 shall not be subject to the requirement in WAC 181-85-030(6) of a minimum of three continuing education credit hours)).
(4) Credits are not earned for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of the employee's next highest degree.
(5) Credits earned after September 1, 1995, must satisfy the additional requirements of WAC 392-121-262.
(6) Credits are not counted as academic credits pursuant to WAC 392-121-255 or nondegree credits pursuant to WAC 392-121-259.
(7) Ten locally approved in-service or state approved continuing education credit hours defined in WAC 181-85-030 equal one in-service credit.
(8) Each forty hours of participation in an approved internship with a business, industry, or government agency pursuant to chapter 181-83 WAC equals one in-service credit.
(a) No more than two in-service credits may be earned as a result of an internship during any calendar-year period.
(b) Each individual is limited to a maximum of fifteen in-service credits earned from internships.
(9) Accumulate credits rounded to one decimal place.
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