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SENATE BILL 6010
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Passed Legislature - 1995 First Special
Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/22/95. Referred to Committee
on Education.
Affecting the funding formula for
the learning assistance program.
AN ACT Relating to the
learning assistance program; amending RCW 28A.165.070; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.165.070 and 1993
sp.s. c 24 s 520 are each amended to read as follows:
Each school district
which has established an approved program shall be eligible, as determined by
the superintendent of public instruction, for state funds made available for
the purposes of such programs.
(1) For the ((1993-94
and 1994-95)) 1995-96 school year((s)) and thereafter,
the superintendent of public instruction shall distribute funds appropriated
for the learning assistance program in accordance with the biennial appropriations
act. The distribution formula shall be based upon an assessment of students
and a poverty factor.
(2) ((For the
1995-96 school year and thereafter and unless modified under subsection (4) of
this section, the superintendent of public instruction shall make use of data
derived from the basic skills tests in determining the amount of funds for
which a district may be eligible. Funds shall be distributed according to the
district's total full-time equivalent enrollment in kindergarten through grade
nine and the percentage of the district's students taking the basic skills
tests who scored in the lowest quartile as compared with national norms. In
making this calculation, the superintendent of public instruction may use an
average over the immediately preceding five or fewer years of the district's
percentage scoring in the lowest quartile. The superintendent of public
instruction shall also deduct the number of students at these age levels who
are identified as specific learning disabled and are generating state funds for
special education programs conducted pursuant to RCW 28A.155.010 through
28A.155.100, in distributing state funds for learning assistance.
(3))) The distribution ((formula in this section))
of funds is for allocation purposes only.
(((4))) (3)
The superintendent of public instruction shall recommend to the legislature a
new allocation formula ((for use in the 1995-97 fiscal biennium)) that
uses additional elements consistent with performance-based education and the
new assessment system developed by the commission on student learning. ((The
superintendent may request a delay in development of the new allocation formula
if the commission's assessment system is not available for use in the 1995-97
biennium)) The superintendent of public instruction shall develop the
recommendations for a new allocation formula not later than the 1997-98 school
year, based upon the initial implementation of the assessment system for
reading, writing, communication, and mathematics.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support
of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take
effect immediately.
