RCW 28A.657.005 Findings. (1) The legislature finds that an effective educational accountability system is premised on creating and maintaining partnerships between the state and local school district boards of directors. The legislature also recognizes it takes time to make significant changes that are sustainable over the long term in an educational system that serves more […]
RCW 28A.657.010 Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) “All students group” means those students in grades three through eight and high school who take the state’s assessment in reading or English language arts and mathematics required under 20 U.S.C. Sec. 6311(b)(3). (2) “Title I” […]
RCW 28A.657.020 Persistently lowest-achieving schools—Challenged schools—Identification—Criteria—Washington achievement index. (1) Beginning in 2010, and each year thereafter through December 1, 2012, the superintendent of public instruction shall annually identify schools as one of the state’s persistently lowest-achieving schools if the school is a Title I school, or a school that is eligible for but does not […]
RCW 28A.657.030 Required action districts—Recommendation for designation—Reconsideration—Designation—Notice. (1) Beginning in January 2011, the superintendent of public instruction shall annually recommend to the state board of education school districts for designation as required action districts. A district with at least one school identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school according to the criteria established by the superintendent […]
RCW 28A.657.040 Academic performance audits of lowest-achieving schools in required action districts—External review teams—Audit findings. (1) The superintendent of public instruction shall contract with an external review team to conduct an academic performance audit of the district and each persistently lowest-achieving school in a required action district to identify the potential reasons for the school’s […]
RCW 28A.657.050 Required action plans—Development—Publication of guidelines, research, and models—Submission—Contents—Effect on existing collective bargaining agreements. (1)(a) The local district superintendent and local school board of a school district designated as a required action district must submit a required action plan to the state board of education for approval. Unless otherwise required by subsection (3) of […]
RCW 28A.657.060 Required action plans—Approval or nonapproval by state board of education—Resubmission or reconsideration—Implementation. A required action plan developed by a district’s school board and superintendent must be submitted to the state board of education for approval. The state board must accept for inclusion in any required action plan the final decision by the superior […]
RCW 28A.657.070 Required action plan review panel—Membership—Duties—Timelines and procedures for deliberations. (1) A required action plan review panel shall be established to offer an objective, external review of a request from a school district for reconsideration of the state board of education’s rejection of the district’s required action plan or reconsideration of a level two […]
RCW 28A.657.080 Redirecting Title I funds based on academic performance audit findings. The state board of education may direct the superintendent of public instruction to require a school district that has not submitted a final required action plan for approval, or has submitted but not received state board of education approval of a required action […]
RCW 28A.657.090 Required action plans—Implementation—Technical assistance and funds—Progress report. A school district must implement a required action plan upon approval by the state board of education. The office of the superintendent of public instruction must provide the required action district with technical assistance and federal or state funds for school improvement, if available, to implement […]
RCW 28A.657.100 Required action districts—Progress reports—Release from designation—Assignment to level two of the required action process. (1) The superintendent of public instruction must provide a report twice per year to the state board of education regarding the progress made by all school districts designated as required action districts. (2) The superintendent of public instruction must […]
RCW 28A.657.105 Required action process—Level two schools and plans. (1) School districts assigned by the state board of education to level two of the required action process under this chapter are those with one or more schools that have remained as persistently lowest-achieving for more than three years and have not demonstrated recent and significant […]
RCW 28A.657.110 Accountability framework for system of support for challenged schools—Washington achievement index—Recognition of schools for exemplary performance—Use of state system to replace federal accountability system. (1) By November 1, 2013, the state board of education shall propose rules for adoption establishing an accountability framework that creates a unified system of support for challenged schools […]
RCW 28A.657.120 Rules. The superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education may each adopt rules in accordance with chapter 34.05 RCW as necessary to implement this chapter. [ 2010 c 235 § 113.] NOTES: Finding—2010 c 235: See note following RCW 28A.405.245.
RCW 28A.657.150 Identification of schools with highest growth in English language learner students—Cultural competence professional development and training. At the beginning of each school year, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall identify schools in the top five percent of schools with the highest percent growth during the previous two school years in […]
