WSR 98-05-004

PERMANENT RULES

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

[Filed February 4, 1998, 3:45 p.m.]

Date of Adoption: January 29, 1998.

Purpose: To make technical adjustments, repeal unnecessary wording, and provide greater flexibility to school districts.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 180-39-027, 180-39-028, 180-39-030 and 180-39-035; and amending WAC 180-39-025.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.225.160.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 98-01-197 on December 23, 1997.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 1, repealed 4.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 1, repealed 4.

Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 1, repealed 4.

Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

February 4, 1998

Larry Davis

Executive Director

AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending Order 5-83, filed 6/2/83)

WAC 180-39-025 Local option exceptions to uniform entry qualification. School districts may adopt regulations that provide for individual exceptions to the uniform entry qualifications established by this chapter. Such regulations shall provide for a screening process and/or instrument(s) which measure the ability or the need, or both, of an individual student to succeed in earlier entry. ((Such process and/or instrument(s) shall include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

(1) Mental ability;

(2) Gross motor skills;

(3) Fine motor skills;

(4) Visual discrimination;

(5) Auditory discrimination; and

(6) Emotional/social development.))

Note: See also RCW 28A.225.160 for provisions relating to preadmission screening process fees and fee waivers.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.58.190. 83-13-004 (Order 5-83), 180-39-025, filed 6/2/83.]

REPEALER

The following sections of the Washington Administrative Code are repealed:

WAC 180-39-027 Fees.

WAC 180-39-028 Fee waivers.

WAC 180-39-030 Early entry nondiscrimination.