SHB 1023 - H AMD 051 WITHDRAWN 3-1-91

By Representatives Brough, Holland, Ballard, Betrozoff

On page 20, after line 28, strike all material down to and including "~~excellence.~~))" on page 21, line 24 and insert:

"(4) Until September 1, 1995, each ((~~Each~~)) annual average full time equivalent certificated classroom teacher's direct classroom contact hours shall average at least twenty‑five hours per week. Direct classroom contact hours shall be exclusive of time required to be spent for preparation, conferences, or any other nonclassroom instruction duties. Up to two hundred minutes per week may be deducted from the twenty‑five contact hour requirement, at the discretion of the school district board of directors, to accommodate authorized teacher/parent‑guardian conferences, recess, passing time between classes, and informal instructional activity. Implementing rules to be adopted by the state board of education pursuant to RCW 28A.150.220(6) shall provide that compliance with the direct contact hour requirement shall be based upon teachers' normally assigned weekly instructional schedules, as assigned by the district administration. Additional record‑keeping by classroom teachers as a means of accounting for contact hours shall not be required. However, upon request from the board of directors of any school district, the provisions relating to direct classroom contact hours for individual teachers in that district may be waived by the state board of education if the waiver is necessary to implement a locally approved plan for educational excellence and the waiver is limited to those individual teachers approved in the local plan for educational excellence. The state board of education shall develop criteria to evaluate the need for the waiver. Granting of the waiver shall depend upon verification that: (a) The students' classroom instructional time will not be reduced; and (b) the teacher's expertise is critical to the success of the local plan for excellence. This subsection shall become ineffective on September 1, 1995."