Education-Related Legislation to Watch!

Bills to watch:
SSB5866 - Social Emotional Learning

• Requires the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Convene a work group to recommend comprehensive social emotional learning benchmarks for grades kindergarten through high school; and (2) Conduct a survey of schools to ascertain how many schools in the state are implementing a social emotional learning program and to understand individual districts' capacity to implement social emotional learning. 
  
• Requires educational service districts to develop and maintain the capacity to serve as a convener, trainer, and mentor for educators and other school district staff on social emotional learning. 
  
• Authorizes school districts to use specific funding to develop and update school specific action plans to implement multitiered systems of support frameworks and curriculum aligned with the frameworks.

HB1295 - Breakfast After the Bell
SB5437 - Breakfast After the Bell

• Requires each high-needs school to offer breakfast after the bell to each student and provide adequate time for students to eat. 
  
• Requires the state to provide, and the office of the superintendent of public instruction to administer, one-time start-up allocation grants of six thousand dollars to each high-needs school implementing a breakfast after the bell program. 
  
• Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Develop and distribute procedures and guidelines for the implementation of this act; and (2) Dedicate staff within the office to offer training and technical and marketing assistance to public schools and school districts related to offering breakfast after the bell. 
  
• Provides that this act is null and void if appropriations are not approved.

HB1495 - Student Privacy
SB5419 - Student Privacy

• Establishes the student user privacy in education rights act or SUPER act. 
  
• Requires school service providers to: (1) Provide information about the types of student personal information they collect and how they use and share the information; and (2) Maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of student personal information.

SB5202 - Financial Education

• Changes the composition and duties of the financial education public-private partnership. 
  
• Authorizes teachers appointed as members by the superintendent of public instruction to be paid travel expenses from funds available in the financial education public-private partnership account. 
  
• Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Integrate financial education skills and content knowledge into the state essential academic learning requirements; and (2) After consulting with the partnership, make available to all school districts a list of courses that align with the financial education standards integrated into the state essential academic learning requirements. 
  
• Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to access the a financial education standards.

HB 1121 - Financial Education

• Changes the composition and duties of the financial education public-private partnership. 
  
• Authorizes teachers appointed as members by the superintendent of public instruction to be paid travel expenses from funds available in the financial education public-private partnership account. 
  
• Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Integrate financial education skills and content knowledge into the state learning standards; and (2) After consulting with the partnership, make available to all school districts a list of materials that align with the financial education standards integrated into the state learning standards. 
  
• Requires school districts to provide students in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to access the financial education standards. 
  
• Adopts standards in K-12 personal finance education developed by a national coalition for personal financial literacy that includes partners from business, finance, government, academia, education, and state affiliates as the state financial education learning standards.

SB5349 - Collegiate financial literacy

• Requires institutions of higher education, in consultation with the office of student financial assistance, to take reasonable steps to ensure that the institutions present and each enrolled student participates in a live financial literacy seminar.

SB5082 - CTE for elementary schools

• Provides elementary school students with career and technical education opportunities. 
  
• Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to implement a grant program to fund introductory K-12 STEM programs in career and technical education with the goal of developing model programs across elementary, middle, and high schools. 
  
• Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the education data center to track student participation and long-term outcome data. 
  
• Makes an appropriation.

If your eyes are not rolling up in your head yet, keep reading:

• Governor's Proposed Budget, 2015-17 Education Highlights
  
• Senate Budget Briefing Book (K12 starts on page 20)
• House Budget Briefing Book (K12 starts on page 42)
• Interested in CTE funding (including STEM), which needs a little attention for intentional funding? CTE and Skill Center Program Funding, Accounting & Data Reporting