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                                    SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1056

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                                                                            C 422 L 85

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Representatives Peery, Ebersole, Appelwick, Wang, Todd, Jacobsen, G. Nelson, Holland, J. Williams, Allen and May)

Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to school-based management; adding a new section to chapter 28A.03 RCW; adding new sections to chapter 28A.58 RCW; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.58 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) The legislature believes that teachers, principals and other school administrators, parents, students, school district personnel, school board members, and members of the community, utilizing the results of continuing research on effective education, can best identify the educational goals, needs, and conditions of the community and develop and implement a basic education program that will provide excellence.

          (2) To meet the goals set forth in this section, it is the intent and purpose of the legislature to encourage improvement of Washington's public school system by returning more control over the operation of local education programs to local districts through a program of pilot projects in school-based management.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.03 RCW to read as follows:

          To carry out the school-based management pilot projects of section 3 of this act, the superintendent of public instruction shall:

          (1) Grant funds to local school districts that apply for funding on a grant proposal or other basis, to establish pilot projects in school-based management:  PROVIDED, That in at least one project every building in a district shall use school-based management;

          (2) Develop guidelines, in consultation with school districts, for school-based management programs;

          (3) Assist districts and schools, upon request, to design, implement, or evaluate school improvement programs authorized by section 3 of this act;

          (4) Submit a report to the legislature not later than two and one-half years after the effective date of this act, on the results of the pilot projects, any other similar programs being used in local districts, and any recommendations;

          (5) These school-based management pilot projects are not part of the program of basic education which the state must fund under Article IX of the state Constitution.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.58 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) Each pilot project school that participates in the school-based management program authorized by section 2 of this act shall be required to establish a school site council.  The council shall be minimally composed of the school principal, teachers, other school personnel, parents of pupils attending the school, nonparent community members from the school's service area, and, in secondary schools, pupils.  Existing school-wide advisory groups or school support groups may be used as the school site council if such groups conform to the general membership requirements of this section.

          (2) The exact size of the council and the term and method of selection and replacement of council members shall be specified in the school improvement plan developed pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.

          (3) Each school site council shall be required to develop an annual school improvement plan containing improvement objectives as established by the council under guidelines developed by the superintendent of public instruction.

          (4) The board of directors of each school district in which a school is participating in the school-based management program authorized by section 2 of this act shall review and approve or disapprove planning applications and school improvement plans consistent with, but not limited to, rules and regulations adopted by the superintendent of public instruction.  No school improvement plan may be approved unless it was developed and recommended by a school site council.  The board of directors shall notify the school site council in writing of specific reasons for not approving the school improvement plan.  Modifications to the plan shall be developed and recommended by the council and approved or disapproved by the board of directors.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     This act shall expire two years after the effective date of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.     If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill number, is not provided by the legislature by July 1, 1987, this act shall be null and void.  This act shall be of no effect until such specific funding is provided.  If such funding is so provided, this act shall take effect when the legislation providing the funding takes effect.

                                                                                                                           Passed the House April 27, 1985.

                                                                                                                                         Speaker of the House.

                                                                                                                           Passed the Senate April 25, 1985.

                                                                                                                                       President of the Senate.