Education

Concerning the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation programs.

Concerning the completion of postsecondary financial aid applications.

Requiring reviews of the performance, operations, and funding of the state’s public education system.

Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.

Addressing restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.

Providing school districts and public schools with assistance to coordinate comprehensive behavioral health supports for students.

Promoting educational stability for children of military families.

Maintaining an online record of special education complaint decisions.

Concerning anaphylaxis medications in schools.

Promoting student access to information about media literacy and civic education.

Concerning charter school contracts.

Addressing artificial intelligence, student discipline, and surveillance in public schools.

Maintaining the financial solvency of school districts.

Gathering survey information to improve the public school system.

Creating the youth development fund account to increase access to positive youth development programs.

Considering the experiences of historically marginalized and underrepresented groups when identifying professional development resources on certain topics.

Addressing records maintained by the office of the education ombuds.

Promoting the use of local foods in public schools.

Establishing empowerED scholarships for foster care students using educational savings accounts.

Adjusting school director districts.

Identifying African American studies curricula for students in grades seven through 12.

Requiring immediate law enforcement notification of criminal actions on public school property.

Establishing a statewide digital transcript data-sharing environment.

Requiring cardiac emergency response plans in schools.

Requiring Washington state's participation in the federal tax credit program for contributions of individuals to scholarship granting organizations.

Concerning school board compensation.

Requiring the creation and maintenance of school maps in safe school plans.

Addressing unexcused student absences.

Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools.

Supporting remote testing options for students enrolled in online school programs.

Making a required school director governance training program available at no cost and virtually.

Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.

Supporting public school instruction in tribal sovereignty and federally recognized Indian tribes.

Promoting cardiac emergency response plans in schools.

Expanding protections for certain students to promote inclusivity in public schools.

Concerning record checks for certain volunteers and contractors who will have access to children or persons with developmental disabilities.

Concerning school library information and technology programs.

Enhancing youth mental health and well-being through advanced training and expansion of the workforce in schools.

Concerning nonfirearm measures to increase school safety for students and staff.

Supporting student success through instruction in self-resiliency skills.

Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.

Establishing a state matching grant to support American Indian and Alaska Native students.

Making financial education instruction a graduation requirement in public schools.

Amending the Constitution to allow a majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.

Permitting the recording of individualized education program team meetings.

Increasing the accessibility of academic reengagement opportunities for eligible students.

Restricting mobile device usage by public school students.

Supporting the exploration and implementation of later starting times for public schools.

Providing temporary interfund loans for school districts.

Updating emergency response systems in public schools including panic or alert buttons.

Concerning teacher residency and apprenticeship programs.

Supporting the implementation of competency-based education.

Directing the statewide career and technical education task force to consider educational opportunities for careers in maritime professions.

Encouraging public school instruction in awareness of blood donation.

Improving student access to dual credit programs.

Improving access to career opportunities for students.

Revised for Passed Legislature: Concerning the licensure and employment of out-of-state teachers.Original: Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact.

Revised for Passed Legislature: Concerning the licensure and employment of out-of-state teachers.Original: Adopting the interstate teacher mobility compact.

Concerning pupil transportation.

Expanding and strengthening career and technical education core plus programs.

Posting of approved courses and providers of continuing education.

Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in public schools.Original: Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in high schools.

Naming the curriculum used to inform students about tribal history, culture, and government after John McCoy (lulilaš).

Building a multilingual, multiliterate Washington through dual and tribal language education.

Building a multilingual, multiliterate Washington through dual and tribal language education.

Promoting inclusive learning standards and instructional materials in public schools.

Concerning special education safety net awards.

Concerning the burden of proof for special education due process hearings.

Reorganizing statutory requirements governing high school graduation.

Revised for Engrossed: Establishing a school modernization loan program.Original: Establishing a public school revolving fund.

Concerning representation in the educator preparation act.

Concerning a computer science competency graduation requirement.

Requesting Congress to fully fund 40 percent of the costs of IDEA.

Supporting student well-being through instruction in social-emotional skills.

Concerning Holocaust and genocide education in public schools.

Including state-tribal education compact schools and charter schools as entities able to receive waivers from the state board of education.

Concerning restraint or isolation of students in public schools and educational programs.

Reviewing reprimands for professional educators.

Providing public school students with opportunities for cultural expression at commencement ceremonies.

Collecting data on student transfers and withdrawals from public schools and school districts.

Supporting and strengthening the professional education workforce.

Improving access to and provision of a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities.

Concerning school library information and technology programs.

Extending special education services.

Improving student outcomes by restricting mobile device use by public school students.

Including weighted grade point averages on high school transcripts.

Improving the education of students with varying abilities by enhancing special education services.

Increasing student access to traffic safety education in rural school districts.

Amending the Constitution to allow 55 percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Updating required instruction for high school students in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators.

Establishing a statewide network for student mental and behavioral health.

Concerning funded special education enrollment.

Supporting students who are chronically absent and at risk for not graduating high school.

Concerning special education safety net awards.

Concerning opioid overdose reversal medication in high schools.

Adjusting funded special education enrollment.

Concerning the academic and support needs of children of seasonal farmworkers.

Creating a reading coaches grant program.

Promoting and facilitating the use of professional learning communities.

Concerning classified staff providing student and staff safety.

Promoting instruction in public schools about the historical and cultural contributions of Filipino Americans.

Concerning school library information and technology programs.

Concerning small districts with less than 2,750 students and significant participation in skill centers.

Ensuring elementary school students receive sufficient daily recess.

Aligning policies to reflect the updated standards of practice for school district staff.

Modifying school district elections.

Concerning high school and beyond planning.

Addressing school bus safety.

Expanding access to dual credit programs.

Concerning nonpublic agencies operating special education programs for students with disabilities.

Funding special education.

Establishing school district depreciation subfunds for the purposes of preventative maintenance.

Revised for 1st Substitute: Concerning career and technical education course equivalencies.Original: Facilitating course equivalency agreements between skill centers and school districts.

Supporting the needs of students experiencing homelessness.

Concerning high school graduation pathway options.

Providing free school meals for all.

Mandating instruction on sex trafficking prevention and identification for students in grades seven through 12.

Advancing equity in programs for highly capable students.

Preventing and responding to harassment, intimidation, bullying, and discrimination in schools.

Requiring school districts and other public education entities to make information from the department of health available.

Establishing regional apprenticeship programs.

Administering educational service district elections.

Concerning computer science instruction in state long-term juvenile institutions.

Awarding diplomas posthumously.

Promoting awareness of the governor's office of the education ombuds.

Concerning prototypical school formulas for physical, social, and emotional support in schools.

Increasing language access in public schools.

Prohibiting active shooter scenarios for school safety-related drills.

Concerning dual credit program data.

Concerning student excused absences for mental health reasons.

Addressing pupil transportation allocations.

Providing school districts serving low-income communities with flexibility in financing their facilities.

Concerning the provision of the paraeducator fundamental course of study.

Expanding access to dual credit programs.

Updating the 2015 report and recommendations for supporting student success through measuring and mitigating community risk and protective predictors since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Establishing school district depreciation subfunds for the purposes of preventative maintenance.

Concerning high school graduation credit and pathway options.

Increasing public school participation in the community eligibility provision of the United States department of agriculture.

Concerning reprimands for professional educators.

Updating school district director compensation through the revision and preservation of a uniform compensation structure and an examination of future needs.

Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Improving school districts' responses to complaints of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying.

Concerning agriculture, food, and natural resource education.

Concerning bond authorization training for school district boards of directors.

Establishing parents' bill of rights related to their child's public education.

Addressing the protection of quality civic education and academic discourse.

Establishing the K-12 education scholarship program.

Teaching students how to prevent, and avoid being recruited into, sex trafficking.

Prohibiting public schools from requiring students to eat or drink outside school buildings.

Extending the time frame for establishing charter schools.

Concerning student financial education.

Concerning qualifications for school board directors.

Creating the African American studies specialty endorsement.

Creating the freedom in education program.

Supporting media literacy and digital citizenship.

Providing trauma-informed counseling and supports to students who were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Extending comprehensive sexual health education compliance dates by one year.

Increasing the number of United States history and government credits required for graduation from a public high school.

Providing parents and their children with more choices for a quality K-12 education through the K-12 education scholarship program.

Concerning the public health knowledge of students in public school.

Concerning the time frame for establishing charter schools.

Procuring and supporting appropriate computers and devices for public school students and instructional staff.

Concerning the statewide first responder building mapping information system.

Concerning professional learning, equity, cultural competency, and dismantling institutional racism in the public school system.

Promoting student access to information about behavioral health resources.

Taking action to address lead in drinking water.

Prohibiting the inappropriate use of Native American names, symbols, or images as public school mascots, logos, or team names.

Concerning access to higher education.

Modifying the learning assistance program.

Specifying minimum continuing education requirements for administrator and teacher certificate renewals that focus on equity-based school and classroom practices.

Providing K-12 public school safety and security services by classified staff or contractors.

Concerning the emergency waiver of instructional hours and days at private schools.

Creating an innovative learning pilot program.

Reporting of student head injury information sustained during athletics and other activities.

Assessing the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in middle and high school students to inform decision making and improve services.

Increasing equitable educational outcomes for foster care and homeless children and youth from prekindergarten to postsecondary education.

Establishing a task force on improving institutional education programs and outcomes.

Concerning comprehensive sexual health education.

Concerning comprehensive sexual health education.

Concerning educational reporting requirements.

Promoting the effective and efficient administration of the Washington state charter school commission.

Requiring contact information for suicide prevention and crisis intervention organizations on student and staff identification cards.

Concerning the participation of students who are low income in extracurricular activities.

Awarding diplomas posthumously.

Concerning dual language learning in early learning and K-12 education.

Concerning the lease or rental of surplus property of school districts.

Concerning the immigration status of students.

Repealing the education accountability system oversight committee.

Concerning statewide implementation of early screening for dyslexia.

Developing comprehensive school counseling programs.

Concerning the beginning educator support team program.

Establishing a telehealth training and treatment program to assist youth.

Establishing a telehealth training and treatment program to assist youth.

Removing school districts' ability to withhold pupils' grades and transcripts.

Concerning career and technical education in alternative learning experience programs.

Concerning school lunch durations.

Concerning petitions for proposed transfer of school district territory.

Concerning school bus driver requirements.

Ensuring student transportation for students in out-of-home placements.

Modifying certain common school provisions.

Creating the education choice scholarship program.

Narrowing the applicability of restraint and isolation provisions to students with an individualized education program or section 504 plan.

Establishing new reporting requirements for the delivery and improvement of career and technical education.

Studying students' life-threatening allergic reactions.

Requiring comprehensive sexual health education with an affirmative consent curriculum in all public schools by the 2022-23 school year in accordance with the recommendations of the sexual health education work group.

Creating a family engagement framework.

Establishing a work group on school-based health centers.

Creating statutory authorization for school-based health centers.

Concerning school district levies.

Repealing certain obsolete common school provisions.

Concerning school district enrichment levies.

Allowing the learning assistance program to support school-wide behavioral health system of supports and interventions.

Providing equitable bonuses to K-12 instructional staff who attain national certification through professional organizations.

Expanding ethnic studies materials and resources for public school students in grades kindergarten through six.

Creating a computer science grant program for school districts.

Concerning dual credit programs.

Requiring schools to stock bleeding control kits.

Ensuring equitable competition between students who participate in school athletic activities.

Ensuring that public school students have access to foundational texts.

Concerning special education.

Addressing equity in access to dual credit opportunities.

Concerning enrollment and course registration access for children of military families.

Considering the location of a parent or guardian's residence in interdistrict student transfer requests.

Requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools.

Providing training for equity and cultural competency in the public school system.

Concerning school volunteers.

Reducing state assessment requirements to only those required for federal purposes in order to facilitate removal of inequitable barriers to students.

Concerning sign language interpreting in public schools.

Concerning Holocaust education.

Establishing an educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.

Building capacity within the educator workforce to improve student mental health and well-being.

Revising academic supports associated with high school graduation requirements.

Concerning students with disabilities.

Concerning comprehensive sexual health education.

Concerning dual language learning in early learning and K-12 education.

Increasing student access to school counselors.

Investing in educational mentor programs.

Concerning school district elections.

Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Concerning flexibility in high school graduation requirements.

Concerning support for students experiencing homelessness.

Creating a committee to promote and expand social emotional learning.

Expanding the current and future educator workforce supply.

Increasing the number of school districts that may be authorized to reduce the minimum number of required school days in a school year.

Concerning paraeducators.

Promoting career and college readiness through modified high school graduation requirements.

Concerning access to state career and technical course equivalencies.

Funding rural satellite skill centers.

Concerning harassment, intimidation, bullying, and discrimination in public schools.

Concerning Holocaust education.

Concerning K-12 computer science education data.

Creating the hunger-free students' bill of rights act.

Exchanging and aligning specific powers, duties, and functions of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education.

Concerning high school and beyond plans.

Improving students' mental health by enhancing nonacademic professional services.

Requiring teacher preparation programs to integrate Native American curriculum developed by the office of the superintendent of public instruction into existing Pacific Northwest history and government requirements.

Concerning freedom of expression rights of students at public schools and institutions of higher education.

Defining dyslexia as a specific learning disability and requiring early screening for dyslexia.

Regarding a curriculum for the prevention of sexual abuse of students.

Concerning equitable educational outcomes for foster children and youth from preschool to postsecondary education.

Strengthening school district plans for recognition, screening, and response to emotional or behavioral distress in students.

Concerning school safety.

Updating application requirements for the academic acceleration incentive program.

Adopting policy and procedures on student interviews and interrogations.

Preventing harassment, intimidation, and bullying in public schools.

Modifying the learning assistance program.

Regarding the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Relating to expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.

Concerning the Washington history day program.

Regulating opioid medications at educational institutions.

Relating to expanding the current and future educator workforce supply through evidence-based strategies to improve and incentivize the recruitment and retention of highly effective educators, especially in high-need subject, grade-level, and geographic areas, and to establish a cohesive continuum of high quality professional learning from preparation programs to job embedded induction, mentoring, collaboration, and other professional development opportunities.

Concerning the administration of marijuana to students for medical purposes.

Concerning no required psychotropic medication use for students.

Creating the civic learning public-private partnership.

Concerning certificates of academic and individual achievement.

Establishing a competitive educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.

Creating a students protecting students program.

Modifying school and court processes to promote attendance and reduce truancy.

Expanding the definition of eligible pupil for purposes of the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Establishing regional school safety centers in educational service districts.

Concerning comprehensive school safety planning for public and private K-12 schools.

Removing the ability of school districts to withhold grades and transcripts of pupils responsible for certain damage or losses to school property.

Concerning certificates of academic and individual achievement.

Defining dyslexia as a specific learning disability and requiring early screening for dyslexia.

Concerning suspension and expulsion of students including kindergarten and early elementary school students.

Granting of high school diplomas by community or technical colleges.

Expanding statewide career and technical education course equivalency options.

Modifying definitions for alternative learning experience courses.

Requiring development of a model ethnic studies curriculum.

Eliminating the use of the high school science assessment as a graduation prerequisite. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Delaying the use of the high school science assessment as a graduation prerequisite. )

Eliminating the use of the high school science assessment as a graduation prerequisite. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Delaying the use of the high school science assessment as a graduation prerequisite. )

Developing a bilingual educational workforce.

Addressing school district employer-sponsored health benefit plans.

Concerning middle school career and technical education.

Amending the Constitution to allow a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.

Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds at general elections.

Requiring composting and recycling in public schools.

Amending the Constitution to provide for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds at general elections.

Requiring notification of substitute teachers of complaints about performance of their professional duties.

Changing the annual reporting date for the transitional bilingual instruction program.

Allowing retired teachers to be employed as mentors.

Authorizing flexibility schools and flexibility zones.

Removing the expiration date for the teacher and principal evaluation program advisory committee.

Eliminating the gangs in schools task force.

Providing responsive, needs-based training opportunities for addressing the teacher shortage through improved teacher recruitment, teacher selection, and teacher onboarding and induction.

Relating to addressing the educator shortage and diversifying the educator workforce by supporting future educators from local communities.

Authorizing nationally recognized college assessments for high school assessment purposes.

Concerning the learning assistance program.

Concerning credit requirements for high school graduation.

Improving student achievement by promoting social emotional learning throughout the calendar year.

Improving language access for public school students and families with limited English proficiency.

Creating a pilot project to provide middle and junior high school students strategic and intentional academic support beyond the traditional school day.

Improving and expanding applied learning opportunities in public schools.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Improving language access for public school students and families.

Requiring development of a model ethnic studies curriculum.

Concerning charter school students participating in interschool athletics and extracurricular activities.

Eliminating the use of the high school science assessment as a graduation prerequisite.

Providing flexibility in high school graduation requirements and supporting student success during the transition to a federal every student succeeds act-compliant accountability system.

Concerning dual language in early learning and K-12 education.

Authorizing the superintendent of public instruction to designate a member of the professional educator standards board.

Permitting the possession and application of topical sunscreen products at schools.

Concerning school safety drills.

Concerning digital citizenship, media literacy, and internet safety in schools.

Assessing physical education practices in public schools.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Authorizing reimbursement for substitute teachers participating in activities of the Washington state professional educator standards board to carry out its powers and duties.

Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.

Concerning a statewide plan for funding cost-effective methods for school safety. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning cost-effective methods for maintaining and increasing school safety. )

Concerning public schools that are not common schools.

Improving educational outcomes for homeless students through increased in-school guidance supports, housing stability, and identification services.

Concerning the development of a definition and model for "family engagement coordinator" and other terms used interchangeably with it.

Changing the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees.

Adopting a definition and standards of professional learning.

Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.

Requiring school districts to include sexual abuse as a topic in plans addressing students' emotional or behavioral distress.

Relating to charter schools.

Relating to education.

Concerning paraeducators.

Concerning school choice.

Concerning payment for college admission tests.

Expanding the professional educator workforce by increasing career opportunities in education, creating a more robust enrollment forecasting, and enhancing recruitment efforts.

Preventing unfunded state mandates by requiring school district fiscal notes to identify revenue sources.

Responding to the educator shortage crisis by increasing training, recruitment, and retention, in order to enable Washington to lower class sizes.

Establishing a competitive educational grant program to promote confidence, public speaking, and leadership skills in students.

Promoting educational success in public schools.

Concerning the issuance of a Washington state high school diploma.

Establishing the reading coaches grant program.

Concerning teacher retention.

Preventing unfunded state mandates.

Concerning physical education instructional requirements for public school students.

Creating a pilot project to provide middle and junior high school students strategic and intentional academic support beyond the traditional school day to promote accountability and responsibility.

Concerning school district boards of directors adopting procedures to implement a policy.

Concerning integrated student services and family engagement.

Concerning the shortage of public school teachers and substitute teachers.

Eliminating the certificate of academic achievement as a requirement for high school graduation.

Establishing a pilot project to create and expand instructional worksite learning.

Making provisions to evaluate student mental health services and provide students with skills that promote mental health and well-being and increase academic performance.

Establishing a legislative task force on school counselors, psychologists, and social workers.

Requiring the superintendent of public instruction to develop an elective firearms safety and hunter education course for high school students.

Concerning educational interpreters.

Delaying implementation of revisions to the school levy lid.

Confirming that the professional educator standards board is an authorized representative of the state educational agencies.

Concerning visual screening in schools.

Waiving local graduation requirements for certain students.

Requiring posting of allergen information in public schools.

Modifying school district authority with respect to student parking.

Concerning the achievement index rating system.

Clarifying the authority of a nurse working in a school setting.

Concerning comprehensive safe school plans for public and private K-12 schools.

Concerning transition services for special education students.

Creating a pilot program to implement regional school safety and security centers.

Creating a homeless student housing and educational stability program as a part of basic education.

Concerning privacy and security of personally identifiable student information.

Concerning a curriculum for the prevention of sexual abuse for grades K-12.

Giving parents and guardians an unrestricted right to excuse their children from taking statewide assessments.

Reevaluating the duties of the state board of education.

Concerning the division of large first-class school districts.

Concerning a model policy and procedures for language access by limited-English proficient parents of students.

Concerning the Washington community learning center program.

Creating a pilot program to implement regional school safety and security centers.

Concerning the transfer of school district territory initiated by school district boards of directors.

Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district bonds at general elections.

Establishing a comprehensive plan to expand learning opportunities and improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities or special needs using multiple strategies and statewide partnerships.

Defining the role of the school counselor, social worker, and psychologist.

Supporting evidence-based strategies to promote high school graduation.

Concerning conflict resolution programs in schools.

Waiving local graduation requirements for certain students.

Concerning visual screening in schools.

Concerning the confidentiality of educator professional growth plans.

Concerning school-community learning assistance program action plans.

Confirming that the professional educator standards board is an authorized representative of the state educational agencies.

Enacting the sudden cardiac arrest awareness act.

Expanding dual language and bilingual instruction for early learners through secondary students.

Modifying the high school assessment system by changing the administration of alternative assessments, continuing the requirement for students to demonstrate achievement of state academic standards to earn a high school diploma, and aligning the system with career and college ready graduation requirements.

Making the results on the statewide assessments available as norm-referenced results and as student growth percentiles.

Increasing compensation for school directors in districts enrolling twenty thousand or more students.

Concerning high school and beyond plans.

Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.

Addressing technology literacy.

Eliminating the requirement to obtain a certificate of academic achievement or certificate of individual achievement to graduate from high school.

Concerning breakfast after the bell programs.

Modifying school district authority with respect to student parking.

Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.

Expanding participation in college in the high school programs.

Creating flexibility for the educator retooling conditional scholarship program.

Enacting the student user privacy in education rights act.

Regarding the financial education public-private partnership.

Concerning dual credit opportunities provided by Washington state's public institutions of higher education.

Concerning the membership of the expanded learning opportunities council.

Concerning the notification of parents when their children are below basic on the third grade statewide English language arts assessment.

Concerning school library and technology programs.

Improving student success by increasing instructional hour and graduation requirements.

Creating the summer knowledge improvement pilot program.

Concerning the delivery of medication and services by unlicensed school employees.

Concerning waivers from the one hundred eighty-day school year requirement.

Concerning the operation by educational service districts of educational programs for residents of residential schools.

Concerning paraeducator development.

Concerning assistance for schools in implementing youth suicide prevention activities.

Allowing valid portable background check clearance cards issued by the department of early learning to be used by certain educational employees and their contractors for purposes of their background check requirements.

Making a technical correction to school law governing the use of epinephrine autoinjectors (EPI pens).

Requiring an analysis of how school districts use school days.

Establishing the interactive gaming in schools public-private partnership.

Making school district policies on restraint or isolation of certain students available to parents and guardians.

Changing explicit alternative routes to teacher certification program requirements to expectations for program outcomes.

Creating the breakfast after the bell program.

Enacting provisions to improve educational outcomes for homeless students.

Changing the deadline for notices of nonrenewal of contracts for certificated school employees.

Requiring policies regarding assignment of certificated instructional staff.

Requiring policies regarding assignment of certificated instructional staff.

Improving student achievement and student outcomes.

Expanding participation in college in the high school programs.

Concerning school library information and technology programs.

Providing for a simple majority of voters voting to authorize school district levies and bonds.

Permitting school districts to publish certain legal notices using public web sites maintained by school districts as an alternative to publishing notice in newspapers.

Assuring that education-related information is appropriately provided to parents with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Concerning basic education minimum instructional hours.

Allowing valid portable background check clearance cards issued by the department of early learning to be used by certain educational employees and their contractors for purposes of their background check requirements.

Promoting expanded learning opportunities as a strategy to close the educational opportunity gap and prevent summer learning loss.

Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.

Implementing strategies to close the educational opportunity gap, based on the recommendations of the educational opportunity gap oversight and accountability committee.

Enhancing the basic education allocation formula to adopt the staffing resources recommended by the quality education council.

Establishing policies to support academic acceleration for high school students.

Regarding school suspensions and expulsions.

Concerning student assessments.

Concerning waivers from school year requirements for purposes of economy and efficiency.

Requiring public schools to provide tap water to students during school lunches.

Enhancing the statewide K-12 dropout prevention, intervention, and reengagement system.

Authorizing increased compensation for school directors in districts enrolling twenty thousand or more students.

Creating the dropout prevention through farm engagement pilot project.

Regarding access to K-12 campuses for occupational or educational information.

Creating a pilot project to increase enrollment of underrepresented students in the running start program.

Providing for a single set of laws and procedures governing online learning.

Using school days for meeting with parents and families as part of the Washington inventory of developing skills.

Establishing the Washington K-12 online professional development project.

Regarding training for school employees in the prevention of sexual abuse.

Concerning compensation for certificated employees in the event of notice of probable cause for discharge.

Authorizing the suspension or revocation of certificates or permits to teach based on the fraudulent submission of tests for educators.

Authorizing the educational service district board or local school board to fill vacancies on the board of directors in second-class school districts with an at-large appointment if after one hundred twenty days a candidate from the director district cannot be recruited.

Enhancing the basic education allocation formula to adopt the staffing resources recommended by the quality education council.

Supporting K-12 career education, exploration, and planning.

Placing epinephrine autoinjectors in schools.

Implementing selected recommendations from the 2011 and 2013 reports of the quality education council.

Establishing a performance-based grading system for schools and school districts.

Regarding alternative learning experience courses.

Providing for a single set of laws and procedures governing online learning.

Regarding access to K-12 campuses for occupational or educational information.

Requiring school districts to disclose information about required assessments.

Changing compulsory school attendance requirements for children six and seven years of age.

Supporting music education for young children in public schools.

Modifying the education accountability system to allow state criteria, resources, and strategies to be used for assistance and intervention.

Reducing costs by reducing state assessment requirements.

Regarding assessments in public schools.

Placing epinephrine autoinjectors in schools.

Providing initiatives to improve and expand access to computer science education.

Increasing the capacity of school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth.

Expanding participation in innovation academy cooperatives.

Creating initiatives in high schools to save lives in the event of cardiac arrest.

Creating the state superintendent school district.

Authorizing the suspension or revocation of certificates or permits to teach based on the fraudulent submission of tests for educators. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Authorizing penalties based on the fraudulent submission of tests for educators. )

Adding a requirement to sexual health education to include elements of and consequences for conviction of sexual offenses where the victim is a minor.

Regarding training for school employees in the prevention of sexual abuse.

Regarding school district audits.

Concerning qualifications for educational interpreters.

Requiring school districts to disclose information about required assessments.

Creating the laboratory school partnership program.

Reducing certain requirements affecting school districts.

Expanding waivers from the one hundred eighty-day school year requirement.

Making the membership of the state board of education more representative of public education.

Defining a high school credit for graduation purposes based on the recommendations of the quality education council.

Establishing alternative forms of governance for certain public schools.

Regarding high school graduation requirements.

Concerning public access to instructional material used in public schools.

Regarding an assessment of students in state-funded full-day kindergarten classrooms.

Enacting the American heritage act for Washington state.

Reducing state requirements on local school districts.

Regarding provisional school employees' contracts.

Addressing issues of accountability and funding for alternative learning experience programs.

Regarding an assessment of students in state-funded full-day kindergarten classrooms.

Authorizing a five-year pilot project for up to six collaborative schools for innovation and success operated by school districts in partnership with colleges of education.

Continuing education reforms.