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                                                     SENATE BILL 5990

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                          1993 1st Special Session

By Senators Pelz, Rinehart, Williams, Niemi, Prentice, Moore and Talmadge

Read first time 4/29/93.

Requiring school-based budgeting based on the characteristics and educational needs of students.

          AN ACT Relating to school-based budgeting based on the characteristics and educational needs of students; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  During the 1994-95 school year, the superintendent of public instruction shall require any school district with an enrollment of more than forty thousand students in the 1994-95 school year to develop and implement a budget system that allocates resources based on the characteristics and the educational needs of the students, including but not limited to factors such as poverty, single-parent households, eligibility for bilingual education, and low performance on assessments, in each school before the superintendent of public instruction allocates any funds for nonbasic education programs to the school district.

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