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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 2375

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Betrozoff, Peery, Brumsickle, Valle, Walker, H. Myers, Rasmussen, Schoon, Winsley, Pruitt, Brough, Moyer, Wolfe, Todd, Haugen, Scott, P. King, Rector, Wood, Doty, Basich, Youngsman, May, Kremen, Ferguson, Wineberry and Horn)

Read first time 2/6/90.

AN ACT Relating to ALL KIDS CAN LEARN incentive grants; adding new sections to Title 28A RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     As we face a more complex society and increasing demands are placed on schools and the services they provide for children, it is important that each school and school district determine the role it is to play.  In addition to determining their roles, school districts need to be able to implement the plans established using research and practices that work.  School districts need incentives to develop and implement mission plans that produce more learning for more students.  To develop their visions, school districts must determine what it is that they want and what it is that they have or know.  These determinations will enable school districts to develop a vision of what the school districts are trying to accomplish and enable all parties involved to direct all activities in each school in the school district to make the vision come true.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     In recognition of the importance of the process of defining district purposes and systematically working to achieve the desired results using research and practices that work, the legislature creates the all kids can learn incentive grants.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     The superintendent of public instruction may grant funds to school districts for schools that have shown significant and continuous improvement in student performance.  Such grants shall carry out the purposes of the basic education act.

          (1) The school program shall be based on the implementation of an outcome development model that has been in operation for a period of at least two years.

          (2) Funding for the all kids can learn incentive grants is subject to appropriation being made to the superintendent of public instruction for this purpose.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     Sections 2 and 3 of this act are each added to Title 28A RCW.