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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1811

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Valle, Neher, Cole, R. Johnson, Ebersole, Jones, Orr, Sheldon, Rasmussen, Franklin, Brumsickle, Hine and O'Brien; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction).

Read first time March 6, 1991.  Affecting student motivation programs.

     AN ACT Relating to student motivation programs; and amending RCW 28A.175.010.

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

                                      PART I

                              DROPOUT DATA COLLECTION

     Sec. 101.  RCW 28A.175.010 and 1986 c 151 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (((1) Beginning with the 1986-87 school year,)) Each school district shall account for the educational progress of each of its students.  To achieve this, school districts shall be required to report annually to the superintendent of public instruction:

     (((a))) (1) For students enrolled in each of a school district's high school programs:

(a) The number of students eligible for graduation in fewer than four years;

(b) The number of students who graduate in four years;

(c) The number of students who remain in school for more than four years but who eventually graduate and the number of students who remain in school for more than four years but do not graduate;

(d) The number of students who transfer to other schools;

(e) The number of students who enter from other schools;

(f) The number of students in the ninth through twelfth grade who drop out of school over a four-year period; and

(g) The number of students whose status is unknown.

(2) Dropout rates of students in each of the grades nine through twelve((;)).

     (((b))) (3) Dropout rates for student populations((, by ethnicity,)) in each of the grades nine through twelve by:

(a) Ethnicity;

(b) Gender; and

(c) Socioeconomic status.

     (((c))) (4) The causes or reasons, or both, attributed to students for having dropped out of school in grades nine through twelve.

     (((2))) (5) The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW to assure uniformity in the information districts are required to report under subsections (1) through (4) of this section.  In developing rules, the superintendent of public instruction shall consult with school districts, including administrative and counseling personnel, with regard to the methods through which information is to be collected and reported.

     (((3))) (6) In reporting on the causes or reasons, or both, attributed to students for having dropped out of school, school building officials shall, to the extent reasonably practical, obtain such information directly from students.  In lieu of obtaining such information directly from students, building principals and counselors shall identify the causes or reasons, or both, based on their professional judgment.

     (((4) Beginning with the 1987 legislative session,)) (7) The superintendent of public instruction shall report annually to the legislature the information collected under subsections (1) through (4) of this section.  ((Beginning with the 1991 legislative session, the report shall include the number of students in the ninth through twelfth grades who drop out of school over a four-year period.))