CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

               SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1729

 

 

                   Chapter 177, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

TEACHER TRAINING PILOT PROGRAM

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 12, 1999

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 12, 1999

  Yeas 48   Nays 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1729  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved May 5, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

              May 5, 1999 - 3:55 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                 SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1729

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Kenney, Carlson, Lantz, Quall, Skinner, Reardon, Gombosky, Edwards, Anderson, Veloria, Edmonds, Dunn, Stensen, McIntire, Kagi, Conway, Regala, Lovick, D. Schmidt, Ogden, Keiser, Dickerson and Santos)

 

Read first time 03/08/1999.

 Creating the Washington teacher training pilot program.  


    AN ACT Relating to a teacher training pilot program; adding new sections to chapter 28B.80 RCW; creating new sections; and providing an expiration date.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  There is a need for a coordinated program of teacher training that will involve high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions of higher education in a collaborative, seamless approach to developing teachers for the kindergarten through twelfth grade system.  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature that an innovative pilot project be established for teacher training and attracting teacher candidates.  Furthermore, the legislature intends to establish a pilot program by creating a competitive grant program to assist educational institutions in developing teacher training programs.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  (1) The higher education coordinating board, in consultation with the state board of education has the following powers and duties in administering the pilot program established in section 3 of this act:

    (a) To adopt rules necessary to carry out the program;

    (b) To establish one or more review committees to assist in the evaluation of proposals for funding.  The review committee shall include individuals with significant experience in higher education in areas relevant to one or more of the funding period priorities and shall include representatives from elementary, two-year, and four-year sectors of education;

    (c) To award grants no later than September 1st in those years when funding is available by June 30th;

    (d) To establish each biennium specific guidelines for submitting grant proposals consistent with the overall goals of the program. During the 1999-2001 biennium, the guidelines shall be consistent with the following desired outcomes of:

    (i) Designing a college-level course for enrollment of selected high school seniors interested in teaching careers and students enrolled in a school-based future teachers academy;

    (ii) Designing discipline-based lower division courses that are thematically linked to state student learning goals, essential academic learning requirements, and upper division courses in the interdisciplinary arts and science curriculum and supportive of teaching areas appropriate for prospective teachers;

    (iii) Designing a preprofessional educational studies minor that would be pursued by prospective kindergarten through eighth grade teachers in conjunction with an interdisciplinary arts and science major;

    (iv) Designing mentoring and service learning activities at the community college level that would provide prospective teachers with an orientation to professional education; and

    (v) Designing a process for satisfying certification requirements that encompasses pedagogical coursework and school-based internships cognizant of the financial constraints of working students.

    (2) The pilot project in this section shall conclude no later than January 1, 2005.

    (3) Beginning on December 31, 2001, the higher education coordinating board shall submit an annual written report to the education and higher education committees of the legislature, the state board of education, and the office of the superintendent of public instruction on the status of the pilot project.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  The Washington teacher training pilot program is established.  The higher education coordinating board shall administer the program.  Through this program the board may award, on a competitive basis, grants to public institutions of higher education or consortia of institutions to encourage high quality and effective teacher training programs.  Grants shall not exceed a two-year period.  Strong priority shall be given to proposals that involve shared facilities, shared resources, and cocurricular planning to establish the teacher training program, and to proposals that involve participants from the interdisciplinary arts and science curriculum and professional education faculty as well as classroom teachers from school districts.  Institutions of higher education are encouraged to solicit nonstate funds to support this coordinated approach to teacher training.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.  The higher education coordinating board may solicit and receive such gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources as may be made from time to time, in trust or otherwise, for the use and benefit of the purposes of the program and may expend the same or any income therefrom according to the terms of the gifts, grants, or endowments.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5.  The higher education coordinating board teacher training pilot account is established in the custody of the state treasurer.  The higher education coordinating board shall deposit in the account all moneys received under section 4 of this act.  Moneys in the account may be spent only for the purposes of section 3 of this act.  Disbursements from the account shall be on the authorization of the higher education coordinating board.  The account is subject to the allotment procedure provided under chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for disbursements.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 6.  If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 1999, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 7.  Sections 2 through 5 of this act are each added to chapter 28B.80 RCW.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 8.  Sections 1 through 5 of this act expire January 30, 2005.


    Passed the House March 12, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 5, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 5, 1999.