SB 5396 - DIGEST

Directs the superintendent of public instruction to establish a grant program to provide school districts with funds to visit college campuses and recruit undergraduate students to become mathematics and special education teachers. The recruits may be used to help school districts meet the need for additional mathematics teachers and improve student scores on the Washington assessment of student learning in mathematics. The Washington association of school administrators shall develop the criteria for eligible districts, which may include districts with low scores on the Washington assessment of student learning in mathematics.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act.