2319‑S2.E AMS MCDO DOUM 01

E2SHB 2319 - S AMD TO S AMD (S5375.4) - 497

    BySenator McDonald

    On page 144, after line 26 of the amendment, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION."  Sec. 520.  The legislature finds that K-12 educators in Washington face increasingly greater challenges in the classroom, including violent behavior.  The legislature recognizes that in the face of these challenges, the teaching profession has kept the state's test scores above the national average.

    The legislature also finds that although educators are asked to do steadily more than teach, educators have not received additional compensation accordingly.  Rather, salaries in Washington, as compared to other states, have fallen from eighth in 1983 to seventeenth in 1993. 

    The legislature believes that educators deserve additional compensation this year.   To maintain the morale of Washington's teaching professionals, it is the purpose of this act to grant the state's educators a three percent salary adjustment for the 1994-95 school year.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 521.  A new section is added to 1993 sp.s. c 24 to read as follows:

    The sum of $71,832,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for allocation to school districts for the biennium ending June 30, 1995, to provide a three percent ad hoc salary adjustment for the 1994-95 school year for all state-supported certificated instructional staff, state-supported certificated administrative staff, and state-suupported classified staff, effective September 1, 1994."

ESHB 2319 - S AMD TO S AMD (S5375.4)

    By Senator

    On page 160, line 7 of the amendment, after "28A.600 RCW;" insert "adding a new section to 1993 sp.s c 24;"

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