RCW 28A.175.010 Educational progress information—Reporting requirements—Rules—Reports to legislature—Annual estimate of savings. Each school district shall account for the educational progress of each of its students. To achieve this, school districts shall be required to report annually to the superintendent of public instruction: (1) For students enrolled in each of a school district’s high school programs: […]
RCW 28A.175.025 Building bridges program—Grants. Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall create a grant program and award grants to local partnerships of schools, families, and communities to begin the phase in of a statewide comprehensive dropout prevention, intervention, and retrieval system. This […]
RCW 28A.175.035 Grants—Criteria and requirements—Data collection—Third-party evaluator—Report. (1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall: (a) Identify criteria for grants and evaluate proposals for funding in consultation with the workforce training and education coordinating board; (b) Develop and monitor requirements for grant recipients to: (i) Identify students who both fail the Washington assessment […]
RCW 28A.175.045 Grant awards—Recipients. In awarding the grants under RCW 28A.175.025, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall prioritize schools or districts with dropout rates above the statewide average and shall attempt to award building bridges program grants to different geographic regions of the state. Eligible recipients shall be one of the following […]
RCW 28A.175.055 Grant awards—Eligibility. To be eligible for a grant under RCW 28A.175.025, grant applicants shall: (1) Build or demonstrate a commitment to building a broad-based partnership of schools, families, and community members to provide an effective and efficient building bridges program. The partnership shall consider an effective model for school-community partnerships and include local […]
RCW 28A.175.065 Duties of educational service districts—Collaboration with workforce development councils. (1) Educational service districts, in collaboration with area workforce development councils, shall: (a) Provide technical assistance to local partnerships established under a grant awarded under RCW 28A.175.025 in collecting and using performance data; and (b) At the request of a local partnership established under […]
RCW 28A.175.074 Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout section 3, chapter 243, Laws of 2010 and RCW 28A.175.075 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) “Critical community members” means representatives in the local community from among the following agencies and organizations: Student/parent organizations, parents and families, local government, law enforcement, juvenile corrections, any […]
RCW 28A.175.075 Advisory committee—Composition—Duties—Reports. (1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall establish a state-level advisory committee to be known as the graduation: a team effort partnership advisory committee. The advisory committee shall include K-12 and state agencies that work with youth who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out […]
RCW 28A.175.100 Statewide dropout reengagement program. (1) This section and RCW 28A.175.105 through 28A.175.115 provide a statutory framework for a statewide dropout reengagement system to provide appropriate educational opportunities and access to services for students age sixteen to twenty-one who have dropped out of high school or are not accumulating sufficient credits to reasonably complete […]
RCW 28A.175.105 Statewide dropout reengagement program—Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 28A.175.100 through 28A.175.110 unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) “Dropout reengagement program” means an educational program that offers at least the following instruction and services: (a) Academic instruction, including but not limited to preparation to earn a high school equivalency […]
RCW 28A.175.110 Statewide dropout reengagement program—Model interlocal agreement and model contract—Students considered regularly enrolled in district. (1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall develop a model interlocal agreement and a model contract for the dropout reengagement system. (2) The model interlocal agreement and contract shall, at a minimum, address the following: (a) […]
RCW 28A.175.115 Statewide dropout reengagement program—Rules. (1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules to implement RCW 28A.175.100 through 28A.175.110. (2) When adopting rules under this section and developing model interlocal agreements and contracts under RCW 28A.175.110, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall consult with the state board […]
RCW 28A.175.120 Condensed compliance reports—Second-class districts. Any compliance reporting requirements as a result of laws in this chapter that apply to second-class districts may be submitted in accordance with RCW 28A.330.250. [ 2011 c 45 § 8.] NOTES: Conflict with federal requirements—2011 c 45: See note following RCW 28A.330.250.
RCW 28A.175.130 Pay for actual student success (PASS) program—Created—Finding—Collaboration. (1) The pay for actual student success (PASS) program is created under this section and RCW 28A.175.135 through 28A.175.160 to invest in proven dropout prevention and intervention programs as provided in RCW 28A.175.135 and provide a financial award for high schools that demonstrate improvement in the […]
RCW 28A.175.135 PASS program—Allocation of funds. Subject to funds appropriated for this purpose, funds shall be allocated as specified in the omnibus appropriations act to support the PASS program through the following programs: (1) The opportunity internship program under RCW 28C.18.160 through 28C.18.168; (2) The jobs for America’s graduates program administered through the office of […]
RCW 28A.175.140 PASS program—Duties of superintendent of public instruction. (1) The office of the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the state board of education, must: (a) Calculate the annual extended graduation rate for each high school, which is the rate at which a class of students enters high school as first-year students and […]
RCW 28A.175.145 PASS program—Awards. (1)(a) Subject to funds appropriated for this purpose or otherwise available in the account established in RCW 28A.175.155, beginning in the 2011-12 school year and each year thereafter, a high school that demonstrates improvement in its dropout prevention score compared to the baseline school year as calculated under RCW 28A.175.140 may […]
RCW 28A.175.150 PASS program—Graduation coach. For the purposes of RCW 28A.175.145, a “graduation coach” means a staff person, working in consultation with counselors, who is assigned to identify and provide intervention services to students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out of school or of not graduating on time through the […]
RCW 28A.175.155 PASS program—High school completion account. The high school completion account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. Revenues to the account shall consist of appropriations made by the legislature, federal funds, gifts or grants from the private sector or foundations, and other sources deposited in the account. Expenditures from the account […]
RCW 28A.175.160 PASS program—Information regarding funds and awards—Development of strategies for dropout prevention and reengagement programs, planning, and improvement. The office of the superintendent of public instruction must regularly inform high schools and school districts about the opportunities under RCW 28A.175.135 to receive funding to implement programs that have been proven to reduce dropout rates […]
