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

     Purpose: The state board of education recently changed the definition of a high school credit from one hundred fifty hours seat time to a performance-based definition. WAC 392-410-417 Temporary exemption from credit requirements, was developed to allow those schools using a performance-based system or on a four or five period day to seek an exemption from the seat time definition.

     Since the seat time definition no longer exists, the WAC is no longer needed. WAC 180-51-050 was amended by the state board of education, redefining the definition of a high school credit to performance-based rather than the one hundred fifty hour credit definition.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 392-410-417 Temporary exemption from credit requirements.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.655.180.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 13-06-032 on February 28, 2013.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.

     Date Adopted: April 10, 2013.

Randy Dorn

Superintendent of

Public Instruction

OTS-5223.1

REPEALER

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:

WAC 392-410-117

Temporary exemption from credit requirements.