HB 2409 - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

     Establishes the Washington character education partnership program.  The purpose of the program is to assist public schools in their efforts to design and implement character education programs developed in partnership with parents and the schools' local communities.

     Provides that, subject to funding appropriated by the legislature for the character education partnership program, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall design and implement a competitive grant program to provide character education partnership  grants of up to twenty-five thousand dollars each to schools, school districts, or educational service districts applying on behalf of two or more schools or school districts.