Transcript 2013 Legislative Session Summary July 12, 2013 Agenda • K-12 Capital Funding • K-12 Operating Budget – Pupil Transportation – General Apportionment – Grant Funding • Policy Legislation.

2013 Legislative Session
Summary
July 12, 2013
Agenda
• K-12 Capital Funding
• K-12 Operating Budget
– Pupil Transportation
– General Apportionment
– Grant Funding
• Policy Legislation with Fiscal Impacts
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K-12 CAPITAL FUNDING
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2013-15 Biennium K-12 Capital Budget
Enacted Budget
2013-15 School Construction Assistance Grant Program
Maintenance Level Request
Construction Cost Allocation
Square Footage Released in Biennium
Study and Survey
School Mapping
Educational Space Needs Study- Vetoed by Governor Inslee
Dollars in millions
Sub-total
$ 492.56
$194.26 / $200.40
$3,472,000
$1.34
$0.93
$0.25
$495.09
Sub-total
$7.15
$11.61
$11.89
$1.50
$32.15
Vocational Skills Centers
Clark County Bldg 500
Pierce County Phase III
Spokane (NEWTECH)
Spokane Valley Tech
Other Grant Programs and Projects
Energy Grants for K-12 Schools
Emergency Repair Pool (Funding Appropriated to Office of Financial Management)
School Security Improvement Grants
Distressed Schools - Seattle School District
Delta High School
San Juan School District STEM Vocational Building Renovation
Land Acquisition - Tahoma School District
Sub-total
OSPI Capital Administration
2013-15 Capital Budget - New Appropriations
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$7.00
$5.00
$10.00
$10.00
$5.40
$1.00
$4.00
$42.40
$3.85
$573.49
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K-12 Capital Budget Funding Sources
Dollars in millions
Common School Account Fund Balance
Trust Lands
Permanent Account Investment Income
Federal Revenue
Trust Land Transfers
State Building Construction Account - Bonds
Total Revenue Before Debt Service
Less Skills Center Bond Debt Service
Total Revenue
*Revenue funds new and reappropriated construction projects.
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31.73
141.34
13.06
1.50
42.76
285.40
515.79
(12.85)
502.94
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ESSB 5035 Capital Budget Provisions
• The space allocations for state funding assistance purposes for districts
with senior or four-year high schools with fewer than four hundred
students, as outlined in WAC 392-343-035, must be computed in
accordance with the following formula:
– Number of Headcount Student in Grades 9-12 Maximum Space Allocation
Per Facility
• 0-200 students 42,000 square feet
• 201-300 students 48,000 square feet
• 301-or more students 52,000 square feet
• $250,000 of the common school construction account--state appropriation
is provided solely for the Superintendent of Public Instruction to create
interagency agreements for the following purposes:
– (a) An interagency agreement with The Evergreen State College for a study by
the Washington State Institute for Public Policy on the relationship between
school design and student performance. (vetoed)
– (b) An interagency agreement with the Office of Financial Management to
coordinate a review and make recommendations regarding the financing of
specialized school facilities such as skill centers. (vetoed)
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2SSB 5197 – School Security
• $10.0 Million – School Security Improvement Grant Funding. “The
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction must allocate grants
on a competitive basis for districts to implement emergency
response systems.”
• Every board of directors shall consider installing a perimeter
security control mechanism or system on all school campuses, as
appropriate to the design of the campus. In addition, for major
construction projects, consider school building plans and designs
that promote an optimal level of security, direct control and
observation, and as few entrances as possible.
• The bill directs school districts to work collaboratively with local law
enforcement and school security personnel to develop an
emergency response system using technology to expedite the
response and arrival of law enforcement in the event of a threat or
emergency at a school.
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SHB 1466 – Alternative Public Works
Contracting Procedures
• This bill extends alternative contracting
procedures to June 30, 2021.
• Modifies the criteria to use the Design Build and
General Contractor/Construction Manager
contracting procedures.
• Modifies notification procedures.
• Increases Job Order Contracting limits to $6
million for certain counties.
• Requires the Capital Projects Advisory Review
Board to report on the use of life cycle cost
analysis.
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ESHB 1633 – Modifying School District
Bidding Requirements
• The bill raises the minimum bidding threshold
to $75,000 for the cost of any furniture,
supplies, equipment, building, improvements,
or repairs, or other work or purchases, except
books, and allows school districts to use
district staff to do small repair and
improvement projects on district properties
and facilities when the total cost of the project
doesn’t exceed $75,000.
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ESSB 5709 – Densified Biomass Pilot
• Directs WSU to develop and initiate a pilot
program to demonstrate the feasibility of using
densified biomass to heat public schools.
• Report by December 1, 2013.
• Subject to receiving federal and private funds for
this purpose.
• The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
must notify all school districts about the pilot
project and their opportunity to participate.
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ESHB 1652 – Impact Fee Payments
• This bill was vetoed by the Governor. It would
have allowed impact fees to be deferred from
the time a building permit is submitted to
occupancy, which would create an
unpredictable revenue stream for local
jurisdictions, including school districts, who
are dealing with capacity issues.
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General Apportionment
K-12 OPERATING BUDGET
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Pupil Transportation
• In SY 2013-14, the Legislature provided an
additional $42.8 Million.
• STARS is fully funded in SY 2014-15 with an
additional $88.8 Million.
• Pivot table provides district by district
breakout (last year’s data and coefficients).
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Salaries, Fringe, and Health Benefits
• The 1.9% and 3.0% salary reductions are
restored. Represents $179,727,533 in restored
dollars across all programs. (This is not treated as
a salary increase.)
• Cost of living adjustments and adjustments to
National Board bonuses are suspended for the
2013-15 biennium (HB 2043).
• Fringe benefit rates are 18.68% for certificated
staff and 20.95% for classified staff.
• Health benefit rate remains at $768 per month.
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High Poverty Class Size Reduction
Grade Level
2012-13 Class
Size
2013-14 Class
Size
Increase in Funding
K-1
24.1
20.85
$45,337,896
2-3
24.1
24.1
$0
• Districts will have to prove they are providing a class
size of 20.85 for grades K-1 as condition of receipt of
funds for the 2014-15 school year.
• OSPI must report draft rules to the Office of the
Governor, and Legislative committees regarding
monitoring K-1 class size by December 1, 2013.
• All general education class sizes remain unchanged.
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State Funded Full-Day Kindergarten
• Increases percentage of kindergartners eligible from
22% to 43.75%. Increases funding by $49,687,802.
• A list of newly eligible schools is available on the
SAFS budget prep webpage.
• Districts with newly eligible schools must accept
funding through the I-grants system by July 16th per
Memo 029-13.
• If a district declines funding, the next eligible school
will be offered funding. (There is no guarantee of
funding in subsequent school years, if the funding is
declined.)
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ALE Program Funding
• Eliminates the 10% or 20% reduction in ALE funding
based on program type.
• Funds all ALE enrollment based on the statewide
running start rate. This represents a reduction of ALE
revenue as compared to full funding. Statewide
reduction approximately $800,000.
• Small high school bonus units are provided based upon
total enrollment including ALE. Districts do not receive
bonus units based upon their non-ALE students, and
then ALE revenue in addition to the funding floor.
• No cap on non-resident enrollment.
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MSOC
• Increases MSOC allocations as follows:
Program
General Education
2012-13
2013-14
Total Impact
$554.57
$737.02
$171,224,761
Vocational
$1,354.26
$1,399.30
$3,133,606
Skills Center
$1,203.98
$1,244.25
$246,789
• Vocational and Skills Center MSOC
allocations increased by inflation only.
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Other Vocational/Skills Center Factors
• The BEA District Administrative Multiplier is
reduced from 3.69% to 1.71% for vocational
programs and from 21.92% to 21.60% for skills
center programs.
• Impact of this included on vocational and skills
center line of pivot table.
• Other certificated staff ratio remains at
2.02/1,000 for vocational programs and
2.36/1,000 for skills center programs.
• Vocational indirect percentage remains at 15%.
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Guidance Counselors and Parent
Involvement Coordinators
Staff
Prototypical School
2012-13
2013-14
Elementary
0.0
0.0825
Guidance Counselors
Middle
1.116
1.216
Guidance Counselors
High
1.909
2.009
Parent Involvement Coordinators
• Statewide impact $11,618,285.
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Transitional Bilingual
• Continues to fund 4.778 additional hours of
instruction per week for headcount of K-12 TBIP
students.
• For the 2013-14 school year additional funding is
provided in the form of an additional 3.0 hours
per week for students who have exited the
program during the prior school year. Increases
funding by $6,130,530.
• For the 2014-15 school year the funding includes
students who have exited the program during the
prior two school years.
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Learning Assistance Program
• Increases hours per week of additional
instruction from 1.5156 to 2.3975.
• Increases statewide funding by $74,270,185.
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Highly Capable Program
• Funding provided at 2.159 hours per week,
same as current year.
• Increase of $528,494 shown on pivot table is a
result of the salary restoration, and the
additional FTE added through the expansion
of Full-Day Kindergarten.
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Programs Eliminated in the Budget
• Regional Ed Tech Support Centers
• Readiness to Learn
• Navigation 101
• PASS Act Program
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Bills with a fiscal impact
POLICY LEGISLATION
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E2SHB 1134 –Tribal Education Compacts
• Tribal Education Compact Schools act as their own district.
• OSPI funds these schools directly based on the prototypical
funding formula.
– Schools may not limit or restrict enrollment or school choice options,
however they may prioritize enrollment of tribal members or siblings of
existing students.
– CIS Staff mix will be calculated for each school, but schools do not have to
follow the state salary schedule.
– Funds allocated to tribal compact schools shall remain in the levy base of
the school district formerly providing funding through an inter-local
agreement, until January 1, 2018.
– Reporting requirements include, but are not limited to, S-275, P-223, and
CEDARS.
– OSPI must have rules out by January.
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E2SSB 5329 – Persistently Failing Schools
• Updates the SBE framework to be used by OSPI to identify
persistently lowest-achieving schools to conform to revised federal
rules and guidance, to be applied equally to both Title I and nonTitle I schools.
• Permits state as well as federal funds to be used for school
improvement in a Required Action District (RAD).
• Replaces a requirement that a RAD use one of four federal
intervention models with a requirement for use of a school
improvement model approved by OSPI.
• Authorizes SBE to designate a RAD that has implemented a required
action plan for at least three years and has not made adequate
progress to a new Level II RAD process.
• Directs that OSPI work with the school board to develop a Level II
Plan that includes specified interventions and conditions binding
on the district.
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ESSB 5946 – Strengthening Student
Educational Outcomes
• Omnibus policy bill
– Part I – Learning to Read
– Part II – Requiring the LAP program to be
evidenced based
– Part III - Student Discipline
– Part IV – Educator Support Program
– Part V – Alternative Learning Experiences
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Part I – Learning to Read
• Funds English Language Arts coordinators at ESDs.
• School districts are required to include K-4 reading information
(student is reading at grade level) on report cards.
• Each school and each district must report the number of students in
K-4 reading below grade level.
• Beginning in 2014-15, all 3rd grade students scoring a Level 1
(below basic) on MSP, student must receive intensive reading
remediation.
• Beginning in 2015-16, this expands to students scoring a Level 1 or
Level 2 on the MSP, and remediation strategies must be selected
from a state menu.
• Beginning in 2015-16, for any school where more than 40% score at
a Level 1 or Level 2 on the MSP, all students not reading at grade
level in grades K-4 must receive remediation strategies selected
from the state menu, paid for with LAP funds.
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Part II – Requiring the LAP program
to be evidenced based
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Adds reduction of disruptive behavior as a condition to serve.
OSPI will likely need to develop a behavior assessment.
Requires OSPI to develop a state menu of approved LAP strategies, which are
required to be used by districts beginning in the 2016-17 school year, unless
otherwise state approved.
Requires districts to prioritize the use of LAP funds to first serve grades K-4
reading.
Up to 5% of the LAP allocation may be used for community/ESD partnerships (RTL)
LAP plans are eliminated.
Districts must report in CEDARS (2014-15)
– Annual entrance and exit performance data for each LAP student
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Districts must provide an annual report to OSPI (August 1, 2014 and each August
thereafter)
– Amount of academic growth gained by students in LAP
– Number of students who gained at least one year of growth
– Specific LAP strategies used by each school
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Requires monitoring of LAP programs by OSPI every 4 years.
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Part III - Student Discipline
Part IV – Educator Support Program
Part III – Student Discipline
• For students expelled or suspended for more than one
year, districts must receive approval from OSPI.
• Discipline data reporting must be recorded in CEDARS.
• Discipline data categories is expanded, and
disaggregation is required.
• Schools must create a reengagement plan.
Part IV – Educator Support Program
• Funds competitive grants for mentoring new teachers.
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Part V – Alternative Learning
Experiences
• Defines Alternative Learning Experiences (ALE) based
on type of course rather than type of program.
• Funds ALE courses using the high school running start
rate.
• High school courses must be for credit and meet
graduation requirements.
• Beginning in 2013-14 through 2016-17, districts must
have all ALE programs audited biennially and biennially,
pay for an evaluation of outcomes.
• Clarifies that online courses must have a teacher who
has primary responsibility for the instructional
interaction.
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EHB 1450 –Assessment
• Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement student
assessments developed with a multistate consortium in English Language
Arts(ELA) and mathematics in the 2014-15 school year.
• Requires results from the high school consortium assessments (11th grade
tests) to be used for purposes of high school graduation beginning with
the graduating class of 2019.
• Directs the State Board of Education to establish performance scores for
the new assessments, which may include a different score for graduation
than for college and career readiness.
• Specifies the high school assessments in ELA and mathematics to be used
for the graduating classes of 2015 through 2018, which include results
from one, but not both, mathematics end-of-course assessments.
• States legislative intent to transition to a comprehensive high school
science assessment.
• Requires a report on the process used to prevent bias and assure fairness
in assessments.
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Additional Bills Passed the Legislature
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ESHB 1336 – Troubled youth in schools
SHB 1376 – Suicide assessment training
SHB 1397 – Sexual health education
ESHB 1688 – Student Restraint and isolation
ESB 5104 – Epinephrine autoinjectors
2SSB 5197 – Safe school buildings
SSB 5308 – Sexually exploited children
SSB 5316 – Interviews/third person
ESSB 5563 – Sex abuse prevention/schools
2ESB 5620 – School safety-related drills
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QUESTION FROM THE SITES?
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Important Links
• Legislative Budgets
http://leap.leg.wa.gov/leap/default.asp
• Budget Driver (John Jenft) Rate Sheet
http://www.k12.wa.us/SAFS/13budprp.asp
• Pivot Table
http://www.k12.wa.us/SAFS/13budprp.asp
• Bus Depreciation
https://eds.ospi.k12.wa.us/BusDepreciation/default.aspx
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