(1) Certification fees will be used solely for precertification preparation, program evaluation, professional in-service training programs, and/or provision of certification services by educational service districts in accordance with this chapter.
(2) Precertification preparation:
(a) The primary utilization shall be to support collaborative efforts essential to program development, program evaluation, and assessment of candidates' entry and exit competency.
(b) Funds set aside for precertification shall not supplant funds already available to any participating agency.
(c) A single educational service district shall be designated to administer the funds allocated for precertification programs. The designated educational service district shall be permitted to retain a percentage of the precertification fees at a rate to be negotiated by the superintendent of public instruction and the educational service district for costs related to administering these funds.
(d) Each quarter every educational service district shall forward the moneys designated for precertification programs to the educational service district designated to administer such programs.
(3) Professional in-service training programs and teachers' institutes and/or workshops:
(a) Each educational service district, or cooperative thereof as specified in (d) of this subsection, shall establish an in-service committee composed of an educational service district representative; at least one district superintendent; one principal; one educational staff associate; one elementary, one junior high and one senior high teacher; one representative from the elementary or secondary level of private schools within the educational service district; and one representative selected by the chief administrative officer responsible for professional education from a college/university having a professional educator standards board-approved teacher education program. Teacher representatives shall be selected by agreement among the presidents of the local education associations within the respective educational service district or cooperative thereof.
(b) The educational service district representative shall serve as chairperson of the in-service committee and provide liaison with the superintendent of public instruction and the professional educator standards board.
(c) The in-service committee will be responsible for coordinating in-service/staff development model programs within the educational service district and shall submit to the superintendent of public instruction and the professional educator standards board a plan for soliciting and selecting model programs which shall include procedures for conducting needs assessments, determining priorities and carrying out program evaluation.
(d) Cooperative agreements may be made among educational service districts to provide quality in-service education programs.
(e) Funds designated for in-service programs shall not supplant funds already available for such programs.
(4) Provision of certification services:
(a) The primary utilization shall be to support costs associated with operating educational service district certification offices to provide direct service to educators related to certification.
(b) Funds set aside for the provision of certification services shall not supplant funds already available to any educational service district.
(5) Allowable expenditures. Funds may be used to support costs related to training, such as the payment of professional contractual services, per diem, travel costs, materials, printing, or released time. Nonallowable costs are college/university tuition and fees.
(6) Annual reporting. No later than July 1, the superintendent of public instruction shall prepare and present to the professional educator standards board an annual report concerning the use of certification fees for the previous fiscal year. The report shall include proposed budgets and a description of activities, in accordance with this chapter, for the upcoming fiscal year. Budgets and activities must be approved by the professional educator standards board on an annual basis.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.210. 08-12-055, § 181-79A-131, filed 6/2/08, effective 7/3/08; 06-14-010, § 181-79A-131, filed 6/22/06, effective 7/23/06. 06-02-051, recodified as § 181-79A-131, filed 12/29/05, effective 1/1/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.305.130 and 28A.410.010. 02-18-037, § 180-79A-131, filed 8/26/02, effective 9/26/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010. 97-04-088, § 180-79A-131, filed 2/5/97, effective 3/8/97.]