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FEDERAL, STATE, AND
SCHOOL BOARD GOVERNANCE
Washington
State Board of Education Policy
Washington
Administrative Code (WAC) - Title 180 WAC
The Rules and
Regulations of the State Board of Education
http://www.sbe.wa.gov/Policy/policy.htm
Washington
State Legislature Laws and Agency Rules
State Support of
Public Schools, Chapter 180-16 WAC
http://www.leg.wa.gov/WAC/index.cfm?fuseaction=chapterdigest&chapter=180-16
Washington
State Constitution Article IX: Education
Duties of the State of
Washington with regard to education. (Must scroll down to
Article IX.)
http://www1.leg.wa.gov/LawsAndAgencyRules/Constitution.htm
Washington
State Common School Provisions Title 28A RCW
Washington State
legislative regulations and provisions for Washington
schools.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/rcw/index.cfm?fuseaction=title&title=28A
Washington
State School Directors Association By-Laws and
Positions
School Board members
across the State of Washington have developed the positions
here. Included is the role and activities of Washington
School Boards.
http://wssda.org/wssda/WebForms/En-Us/AboutWSSDA/bylaws.pdf
Seattle School
Board Policies and Procedures
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/policies/index.dxml
No Child Left
Behind Act
In 2002, President
Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act. As part of this
federal law, schools and districts will be held accountable for
making "Adequate Yearly Progress" in the achievement of
students. Currently, Seattle School District is on the
State’s District Improvement Plan.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/main/Nochildleftbehind.html?wrapper=0
Seattle Public
Schools Local Flex Demonstration Program Plan – Five Year
Authority
In 2003 Seattle Public
Schools became the first district in the nation to receive approval
of its plan and to take advantage of the Local-Flexibility
provision under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Prepared by the office of Grant Services, Seattle Public
Schools.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/finance/grants/flex.pdf
FUNDING OF WASHINGTON
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
“Organization and
Financing of Washington Public Schools”
Produced by the Office
of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This
publication attempts to make the complex subject of school finance
understandable to the general public.
http://www.k12.wa.us/safs/PUB/ORG/04/orgfin04.pdf
School
Apportionment and Financial Services (Apportionment and F-195
information)
Office of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
http://www.k12.wa.us/safs/reports.asp
League of
Education Voters Foundation: Key Facts
The League of
Education Voters Foundation is a non-partisan group working to
educate legislators and voters about education policy issues in
Washington State.
http://www.levfoundation.org/
“Realities of
Education Funding in Washington State”
League of Education
Voters Foundation. The League of Education Voters Foundation
is a non-partisan group working to educate legislators and voters
about education policy issues in Washington State.
http://www.levfoundation.org/realities_of_education.htm
“Ample
School Funding Project”
Washington Association
of School Administrators (WASA)
The Ample School
Funding Project is designed to document the cost of providing to
school districts the ample resources they will need to bring all
students to state mandated standards by 2008.
http://www.wasa-oly.org/ASFP.HTM
“Matching
Spending with Strategy: Aligning District Spending to Support
a Strategy of Comprehensive School
Reform”
New American Schools
– By Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
partners with school districts and states to provide support and
assistance in the implementation of comprehensive school reform
designs throughout an entire school system.
http://www.naschools.org/uploadedfiles/Matching.pdf
“Rethinking
School Resources”
New American Schools
– By Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
partners with school districts and states to provide support and
assistance in the implementation of comprehensive school reform
designs throughout an entire school system.
http://www.naschools.org/uploadedfiles/rethinking-resources.pdf
FINANCIAL REPORTS ABOUT
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Seattle Public
Schools Financial Stability
Independent Audit of
Seattle Public Schools - April 2003
Management Response to
Financial Operations and Information Systems Audit - May
2003
Report from the
Committee for Fiscal Integrity - June 2003
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/finance/financialstability/specialreports/index.htm
CRESAP
Report
1990 “Report of
an Evaluation of the Seattle Public Schools” commissioned by
the Washington State House of Representatives
(To be
scanned)
AUDIT
REPORTS
Washington
State Auditor’s Office
Search site “By
Entity Name”: Seattle School District
Audit reports on
Seattle School District from the State Auditor from 1997-98 through
2003-04
http://www.sao.wa.gov/reports/auditfinding/frmAuditSearch.asp?opt=2
SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
ACADEMIC AND FINANCIAL PLANNING
Seattle Public
Schools Five-Year Plan
The Seattle Public
Schools’ Five-Year Plan was adopted on May 18,
2005.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/fiveyearplan/index.xml
Seattle School
District “District Improvement
Plan”
(Plan is not yet
completed)
Seattle Public
Schools 05-06 Adopted Budget, Green Books, and Blue
Books
The 05-06 operating
budget was adopted by the School Board on June 22, 2005. The
Green Book is the “School-Based Planning Packet” which
principals and building leadership teams use to build their
budgets. The Blue Book contains Student Funding Initial
Allocations by school.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/finance/index.xml
“Bridging the
PreK-Elementary Divide” – July/August
2005
Harvard Education
Letter
Transformation of
Seattle’s T.T. Minor Elementary
http://www.edletter.org/current/bridging.shtml
Process for
Budgeting – Central Kitsap School
District
Central Kitsap http://www.cksd.wednet.edu/business/budget/systemic.htm
