6180‑s ams gasp
SSB 6180 - S Amd
By Senators Gaspard, Rinehart, Murray, A. Smith, Pelz and Talmadge
On Page 10, after line 26, insert the following:
"PART IV.
BASIC EDUCATION ALLOCATION -- STUDENT/TEACHER RATIO
Sec. 402. Section 14, chapter 244, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 10, chapter 116, Laws of 1991 and RCW 28A.150.260 are each amended to read as follows:
The basic education allocation for each annual average full time equivalent student shall be determined in accordance with the following procedures:
(1) The governor shall and the superintendent of public instruction may recommend to the legislature a formula based on a ratio of students to staff for the distribution of a basic education allocation for each annual average full time equivalent student enrolled in a common school. The distribution formula shall have the primary objective of equalizing educational opportunities and shall provide appropriate recognition of the following costs among the various districts within the state:
(a) Certificated instructional staff and their related costs;
(b) Certificated administrative staff and their related costs;
(c) Classified staff and their related costs;
(d) Nonsalary costs;
(e) Extraordinary costs of remote and necessary schools and small high schools, including costs of additional certificated and classified staff; and
(f) The attendance of students pursuant to RCW 28A.335.160 and 28A.225.250 who do not reside within the servicing school district.
(2)(a) This formula for distribution of basic education funds shall be reviewed biennially by the superintendent and governor. The recommended formula shall be subject to approval, amendment or rejection by the legislature. The formula shall be for allocation purposes only. While the legislature intends that the allocations for additional instructional staff be used to increase the ratio of such staff to students, nothing in this section shall require districts to reduce the number of administrative staff below existing levels.
(b) Commencing with the 1988‑89 school year, the formula adopted by the legislature shall reflect the following ratios at a minimum: (i) Forty-nine certificated instructional staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students enrolled in grades kindergarten through three; (ii) forty-six certificated instructional staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students in grades four through twelve; (iii) four certificated administrative staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students in grades kindergarten through twelve; and (iv) sixteen and sixty-seven one-hundredths classified personnel to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students enrolled in grades kindergarten through twelve.
"(c) Commencing with the 1991-92 school year, the formula adopted by the legislature shall reflect the following ratios at a minimum: (i) fifty-four and three-tenths certificated instructional staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students enrolled in grades kindergarten through three; (ii) forty-six certificated instructional staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students in grades four through twelve; (iii) four certificated administrative staff to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students in grades kindergarten through twelve; and (iv) sixteen and sixty-seven one-hundredths classified personnel to one thousand annual average full time equivalent students enrolled in grades kindergarten through twelve.
(c)(d) In the
event the legislature rejects the distribution formula recommended by the
governor, without adopting a new distribution formula, the distribution formula
for the previous school year shall remain in effect: PROVIDED, That the
distribution formula developed pursuant to this section shall be for state
apportionment and equalization purposes only and shall not be construed as
mandating specific operational functions of local school districts other than
those program requirements identified in RCW 28A.150.220 and 28A.150.100. The
enrollment of any district shall be the annual average number of full time
equivalent students and part time students as provided in RCW 28A.150.350,
enrolled on the first school day of each month and shall exclude full time
equivalent handicapped students recognized for the purposes of allocation of
state funds for programs under RCW 28A.155.010 through 28A.155.100. The
definition of full time equivalent student shall be determined by rules and
regulations of the superintendent of public instruction: PROVIDED, That the
definition shall be included as part of the superintendent's biennial budget
request: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That any revision of the present definition shall
not take effect until approved by the house appropriations committee and the
senate ways and means committee: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the office of
financial management shall make a monthly review of the superintendent's
reported full time equivalent students in the common schools in conjunction
with RCW 43.62.050.
(3)(a) Certificated instructional staff shall include those persons employed by a school district who are nonsupervisory employees within the meaning of RCW 41.59.020(8): PROVIDED, That in exceptional cases, people of unusual competence but without certification may teach students so long as a certificated person exercises general supervision: PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the hiring of such noncertificated people shall not occur during a labor dispute and such noncertificated people shall not be hired to replace certificated employees during a labor dispute.
(b) Certificated administrative staff shall include all those persons who are chief executive officers, chief administrative officers, confidential employees, supervisors, principals, or assistant principals within the meaning of RCW 41.59.020(4).
(4) 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."
Renumber the remaining sections accordingly.
SSB 6180 - S Amd
By Senators Gaspard, Rinehart, Murray, A. Smith, Pelz and Talmadge
On Page 1, line 3 of the title, after "RCW;" insert "amending Section 14, chapter 244, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 10, chapter 116, Laws of 1991 and RCW 28A.150.260;"