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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5727

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Bailey, Nelson, Benitz, Saling, Patterson, Johnson, Craswell, Zimmerman, Lee and Anderson

Read first time 2/9/87 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to educational excellence; amending section 1, chapter 399, Laws of 1985 (uncodified); and creating a new section.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 399, Laws of 1985 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:

          The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules to establish and operate a beginning teachers assistance pilot program to operate during the first year after this section takes effect for one hundred mentor teachers and during the second year after this section takes effect for up to one thousand mentor teachers.  The results of the first two years of the  program shall be reported to the legislature not later than two and one-half years from the effective date of this section.

The third year, the program shall be a master teacher program.  There shall be up to two thousand master teachers.  The program shall provide for:

          (1) Assistance by a ((mentor)) master teacher who will provide a source of continuing and sustained support to ((a beginning)) teachers, both in and outside the classroom.  ((Mentor)) Master teachers shall be selected so as to represent a reasonable distribution throughout all nine educational service districts;

          (2) Stipends for ((mentor)) master teachers which shall not be deemed compensation for the purposes of salary lid compliance under RCW 28A.58.095:  PROVIDED, That stipends shall not be subject to the continuing contract provisions of Title 28A RCW;

          (3) Workshops for the training of ((mentor)) master teachers;

          (4) The use of substitutes to give the ((mentor)) master teacher ((and beginning teacher)) opportunities to jointly observe and evaluate teaching situations and to give the ((mentor)) master teacher opportunities to observe and assist ((the beginning)) teachers in the classroom; and

          (5) A ((mentor)) master teacher to be a superior teacher based on his or her evaluation and to hold a valid continuing certificate.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     If specific funding for the purposes of the 1987 amendments in this act to section 1, chapter 399, Laws of 1985, referencing this act by bill number, is not provided by the legislature by July 1, 1988, section 1 of this act shall be null and void.  Section 1 of this act shall be of no effect unless specific funding is so provided.  If such funding is so provided, section 1 of this act shall take effect when the legislation providing the funding takes effect.