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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1230
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Brumsickle, Cole, Silver and Scott; by request of Board of Education)
Read first time 02/16/95.
AN ACT Relating to teacher preparation; amending RCW 28A.305.130; adding a new section to chapter 28A.410 RCW; and repealing RCW 28A.305.230, 28A.305.240, 28A.305.245, 28A.305.250, 28A.410.020, 28A.410.030, 28A.415.290, 28B.35.380, and 28B.40.380.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 28A.410 RCW to read as follows:
Not later than January 1, 1997, the state board of education shall study, report, and make recommendations to the legislature on the following issues regarding teacher assessment for initial or residency certification:
(1) How an individual assessment would be linked to state board-adopted performance-based program approval standards;
(2) How an individual assessment would be linked to the performance-based public education system under RCW 28A.630.885; and
(3) Whether, in lieu of requiring the assessment for initial or residency certification, the assessment should be required as a diagnostic tool and the results used for professional growth purposes while the teacher holds the residency certificate.
In conducting this study, the state board shall take into consideration any recommendations from the board's professional education advisory committee and the Washington advisory council for professional teaching standards.
Any recommendation to implement a teacher assessment system, including funding support, must be approved by the legislature before such implementation occurs.
Sec. 2. RCW 28A.305.130 and 1991 c 116 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
In addition to any other powers and duties as provided by law, the state board of education shall:
(1) Require that no person may be admitted to a professional teacher preparation program within Washington state without first demonstrating that he or she is competent in the basic skills required for oral and written communication and computation. The board shall adopt rules to implement this requirement, including criteria for providing waivers as necessary.
(2) Approve or disapprove the program of courses leading to teacher, school administrator, and school specialized personnel certification offered by all institutions of higher education within the state which may be accredited and whose graduates may become entitled to receive such certification.
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(3) Conduct every five years a review of the program approval standards,
including the minimum standards for teachers, administrators, and educational
staff associates, to reflect research findings and assure continued improvement
of preparation programs for teachers, administrators, and educational staff
associates.
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(4) Investigate the character of the work required to be performed as a
condition of entrance to and graduation from any institution of higher
education in this state relative to such certification as provided for in
subsection (((1) above)) (2) of this section, and prepare a list
of accredited institutions of higher education of this and other states whose
graduates may be awarded such certificates.
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(5)(a) The state board of education shall adopt rules to allow a teacher
certification candidate to fulfill, in part, teacher preparation program
requirements through work experience as a noncertificated teacher's aide in a
public school or private school meeting the requirements of RCW 28A.195.010.
The rules shall include, but are not limited to, limitations based upon the
recency of the teacher preparation candidate's teacher aide work experience,
and limitations based on the amount of work experience that may apply toward
teacher preparation program requirements under this chapter.
(b) The state board of education shall require that at the time of the individual's enrollment in a teacher preparation program, the supervising teacher and the building principal shall jointly provide to the teacher preparation program of the higher education institution at which the teacher candidate is enrolled, a written assessment of the performance of the teacher candidate. The assessment shall contain such information as determined by the state board of education and shall include: Evidence that at least fifty percent of the candidate's work as a noncertificated teacher's aide was involved in instructional activities with children under the supervision of a certificated teacher and that the candidate worked a minimum of six hundred thirty hours for one school year; the type of work performed by the candidate; and a recommendation of whether the candidate's work experience as a noncertificated teacher's aide should be substituted for teacher preparation program requirements. In compliance with such rules as may be established by the state board of education under this section, the teacher preparation programs of the higher education institution where the candidate is enrolled shall make the final determination as to what teacher preparation program requirements may be fulfilled by teacher aide work experience.
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(6) Supervise the issuance of such certificates as provided for in
subsection (((1) above)) (2) of this section and specify the
types and kinds of certificates necessary for the several departments of the
common schools by rule or regulation in accordance with RCW 28A.410.010.
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(7) Accredit, subject to such accreditation standards and procedures as
may be established by the state board of education, all schools that apply for
accreditation, and approve, subject to the provisions of RCW 28A.195.010,
private schools carrying out a program for any or all of the grades one through
twelve: PROVIDED, That no public or private schools shall be placed upon the
list of accredited schools so long as secret societies are knowingly allowed to
exist among its students by school officials: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the state
board may elect to require all or certain classifications of the public schools
to conduct and participate in such pre-accreditation examination and evaluation
processes as may now or hereafter be established by the board.
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(8) Make rules ((and regulations)) governing the establishment in
any existing nonhigh school district of any secondary program or any new grades
in grades nine through twelve. Before any such program or any new grades are
established the district must obtain prior approval of the state board.
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(9) Prepare such outline of study for the common schools as the board
shall deem necessary, and prescribe such rules for the general government of
the common schools, as shall seek to secure regularity of attendance, prevent
truancy, secure efficiency, and promote the true interest of the common
schools.
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(10) Continuously reevaluate courses and adopt and enforce regulations
within the common schools so as to meet the educational needs of students and
articulate with the institutions of higher education and unify the work of the
public school system.
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(11) Carry out board powers and duties relating to the organization and
reorganization of school districts under RCW 28A.315.010 through 28A.315.680
and 28A.315.900.
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(12) By rule ((or regulation promulgated)) adopted upon
the advice of the director of community, trade, and economic
development, through the director of fire protection, provide for instruction
of pupils in the public and private schools carrying out a K through 12
program, or any part thereof, so that in case of sudden emergency they shall be
able to leave their particular school building in the shortest possible time or
take such other steps as the particular emergency demands, and without
confusion or panic; such rules ((and regulations)) shall be published
and distributed to certificated personnel throughout the state whose duties
shall include a familiarization therewith as well as the means of
implementation thereof at their particular school.
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(13) Hear and decide appeals as otherwise provided by law.
The state board of education is given the authority to promulgate information and rules dealing with the prevention of child abuse for purposes of curriculum use in the common schools.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) RCW 28A.305.230 and 1985 c 419 s 1;
(2) RCW 28A.305.240 and 1990 c 33 s 268 & 1987 c 525 s 217;
(3) RCW 28A.305.245 and 1991 c 259 s 3;
(4) RCW 28A.305.250 and 1990 c 33 s 269, 1989 c 11 s 4, & 1987 c 525 s 226;
(5) RCW 28A.410.020 and 1991 c 116 s 20, 1988 c 251 s 4, & 1987 c 525 s 202;
(6) RCW 28A.410.030 and 1993 c 336 s 801, 1991 c 116 s 21, & 1987 c 525 s 203;
(7) RCW 28A.415.290 and 1993 c 336 s 406;
(8) RCW 28B.35.380 and 1977 ex.s. c 169 s 60; and
(9) RCW 28B.40.380 and 1977 ex.s. c 169 s 80, 1975 1st ex.s. c 275 s 147, 1969 ex.s. c 176 s 155, & 1969 ex.s. c 223 s 28B.40.380.
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