2SSB 5330 -
By Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Hargrove
ADOPTED 03/06/2013
On page 20, after line 1, insert the following:
"NEW SECTION. Sec. 17 A new section is added to chapter 28A.155
RCW to read as follows:
(1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction must
establish interagency agreements with the department of social and
health services, the department of services for the blind, and any
other state agency that provides high school transition services for
students with disabilities. The purpose of the interagency agreements
is to foster effective multiagency collaboration to provide transition
services for students with disabilities age fourteen through twenty-one, or through high school graduation, whichever occurs first.
Interagency agreements are also intended to streamline services and
programs, promote efficiencies, and establish a uniform focus on
improved outcomes related to self-sufficiency. This subsection does
not require transition services plan development in addition to what
exists on the effective date of this section.
(2) The office of the superintendent of public instruction must
collaborate with the professional educator standards board to build
into existing and ongoing educator requirements that special education
teachers and school psychologists receive training to be appropriately
prepared to address the transition needs of students with disabilities.
(3) To the extent that data is available through data-sharing
agreements established by the education data center under RCW
43.41.400, the education data center must monitor the following
outcomes for students with disabilities after high school graduation:
(a) The number of students who, within one year of high school
graduation:
(i) Enter integrated employment paid at the greater of minimum wage
or competitive wage for the type of employment, with access to related
employment and health benefits; or
(ii) Enter a postsecondary education or training program focused on
leading to integrated employment;
(b) The wages and number of hours worked per pay period;
(c) The impact of employment on any state and federal benefits for
individuals with disabilities;
(d) Indicators of the types of settings in which students who
previously received transition services primarily reside;
(e) Indicators of improved economic status and self-sufficiency;
(f) Data on those students for whom a postsecondary or integrated
employment outcome does not occur within one year of high school
graduation, including:
(i) Information on the reasons that the desired outcome has not
occurred;
(ii) The number of months the student has not achieved the desired
outcome; and
(iii) The efforts made to ensure the student achieves the desired
outcome.
(4) To the extent that the data elements in subsection (3) of this
section are not available to the education data center through data-sharing agreements, the office of the superintendent of public
instruction must attempt to collect the data through a single
communication after the student's graduation.
(5) The office of the superintendent of public instruction must
prepare an annual report on the data and outcomes in subsection (3) of
this section and submit the report to the legislature."
2SSB 5330 -
By Senators McAuliffe, Litzow, Hargrove
ADOPTED 03/06/2013
On page 1, line 6 of the title, after "43.09 RCW;" insert "adding a new section to chapter 28A.155 RCW;"
EFFECT: The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(OSPI) must establish interagency agreements with agencies that provide
high school transition services to students with disabilities to foster
multiagency collaboration to provide transition services and to
streamline services and programs, promote efficiencies, and establish
a uniform focus on improved outcomes related to self-sufficiency.
OSPI must collaborate with the Professional Educator Standards
Board (PESB) to build into existing and ongoing educator requirements
that special education teachers and school psychologists receive
training to be appropriately prepared to address the transition needs
of students with disabilities.
The Education Data Center (EDC) must monitor a number of outcomes
for students with disabilities after high school graduation, to the
extent that data is available through data-sharing agreements
established by EDC. To the extent that the data elements are not
available to EDC, OSPI must collect the data. OSPI must attempt to
collect data through a single communication after a student's
graduation. OSPI must prepare an annual report on the data and
outcomes and submit the report to the Legislature.