H-0670.1/91 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 1243
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Fuhrman, G. Fisher, Wood, Brekke, Neher, Cole, Silver, Jones, Holland, Peery, Fraser, Brumsickle, Bowman, Moyer, May, Dorn, Pruitt, Belcher, Valle, Heavey, McLean, Chandler, Ferguson, Hochstatter, Padden, Brough, Paris, Winsley, Morton, Mielke, Rayburn, Vance, Forner, P. Johnson, Wynne, Betrozoff, Hargrove, Van Luven, D. Sommers, Edmondson, Miller, Bray, Basich, Mitchell and Tate.
Read first time January 23, 1991. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to teacher preparation programs; adding a new section to chapter 28B.10 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 28A.305 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the demands on teachers in the K-12 schools are evolving as society changes. Factors such as the increase in the number of single-parent households, drug and alcohol abuse, high dropout rates, and increasing rates of crime, among other things, are changing the nature of the teaching enterprise. The legislature also finds that college and university faculty engaged in training prospective teachers need to have first-hand experience of the nature of this changing enterprise. The legislature finds that a recently certified teacher in the K-12 system is required to engage in continuing education in order to stay current in his or her field. The legislature intends to require higher education faculty whose primary responsibility is teaching prospective teachers to engage in a form of public service and continuing education by teaching in the public schools for one hundred eighty hours every five years.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 28B.10 RCW to read as follows:
(1) In any state university, regional university, or state college as defined in RCW 28B.10.016, each member of the faculty of the school, department, or college of education, and each member of the institution's faculty whose primary teaching responsibility is teaching classes for prospective K-12 teachers, shall spend at least one hundred eighty hours every five years teaching in the public schools of the state.
(2) The governing board of each state university, regional university, and state college shall adopt salary policies that ensure that faculty members fulfilling the responsibilities described in this section are appropriately rewarded for their public service and participation in continuing education.
(3) Teacher preparation programs of each state university, regional university, and state college shall be subject to the approval of the state board of education as required under RCW 28A.305.130 and section 3 of this act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 28A.305 RCW to read as follows:
In addition to other approval requirements for teacher preparation programs under RCW 28A.305.130(1), and as a condition for program approval, the state board of education shall require that the requirements of section 2(1) of this act are met at each state university, regional university, and state college, each as defined in RCW 28B.10.016.