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                                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5990

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1994 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Senators Pelz, Rinehart, Williams, Niemi, Prentice, Moore and Talmadge)

Read first time 02/02/94.

Requiring school-based budgeting based on the characteristics and educational needs of students.

          AN ACT Relating to school-based budgeting based on the characteristics and educational needs of students; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  During the 1995-96 school year, the superintendent of public instruction shall require any school district with an enrollment of more than forty thousand students in the 1995-96 school year to develop and implement a budget system that allocates resources based on the characteristics and the educational needs of the students, including but not limited to factors such as poverty, single-parent households, eligibility for bilingual education, and low performance on assessments, in each school before the superintendent of public instruction allocates any local enhancement funds (block grants) to the school district.

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