Revises the essential academic learning requirements and statewide academic assessment system.

Requires the state board of education to appoint academic standards panels comprised of exemplary educators from Washington and nationally and internationally recognized individuals with knowledge and expertise in student learning standards at various grade levels and in various subject areas, and by September 1, 2010, recommend significant revisions to the essential academic learning requirements and grade level expectations in reading, writing, mathematics, and science, to be adopted by the superintendent of public instruction.

Requires, by the 2014-15 school year, the superintendent of public instruction to submit to the United States department of education a proposal to use a growth model of school accountability for the purposes of the no child left behind act of 2001.

Requires the state board of education to examine possible uses for the high school Washington assessment of student learning within the statewide academic assessment system including, but not limited to, requiring students to pass some or all of the subject areas of the assessment for high school graduation.