SB 6264 — Concerning school district consultation with local tribes.

S-6115.1SUBSTITUTES-5214.1SENATE SENATE BILL 6264State of Washington66th Legislature2020 Regular SessionBySenateSessionBySenators Early Learning & K-12 Education (originally sponsored by Senators McCoy, Wellman, Kuderer, Hasegawa, Das, Nguyen, Wilson, C., and Hunt)READHuntRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/07/20.AN01/14/20.Referred to Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education.AN ACT Relating to school district consultation with local tribes;

A new section is added to chapter 28A.300 RCW to read as follows:(1)(a) The office of the superintendent of public instruction and the Washington state school directors' association government-to-government task force shall collaborate with the tribal leaders congress on education to develop a tribal consultation training and schedule.(b) The tribal consultation training and schedule created under this section shall be offered by the office of Native education in the office of the superintendent of public instruction.(c) The tribal consultation and training must be developed and finalized by January 1, 2022.(d)2021.(d) The tribal consultation training must incorporate, at a minimum, the following issues:(i) Identification of Native students, including federal identification guidelines for American Indian and Alaskan Native students;(ii) Data sharing between school districts and tribes, including model policies and procedures created by the Washington state school directors' association and the United States bureau of Indian education;

and(iii) Implementation of the tribal history, culture, and government curriculum under RCW 28A.320.170.(e)28A.320.170.(2)(a) TheSchool trainingdistrict mustdirectors beand madeeducational availableservice todistrict allboard schoolmembers districtmust directorstake and educationalcertify servicecompletion districtof boardthe members.(2)(a)tribal Schoolconsultation districttraining created under this section by the following dates:(i) By September 1, 2021, for directors andof educationalschool servicedistricts districtor board members of districts that are required to perform tribal consultation under Title VI of the federal every student succeeds act (P.L.

6301 et seq.)seq.);(ii) mustBy take and certify completion of the tribal consultation training created under this section by September 1, 2022.(b)2023, Allfor directors of school districts or board members of districts that takedo thenot tribalfall consultationunder training(a)(i) underof this sectionsubsection mustbut renewthat thehave certificationat ofleast completionfifty ofstudents thethat trainingare withinreported fiveas yearsAmerican ofIndian/Alaskan theNative dateunder ofRCW initial28A.300.042 certification.(3)as The office of theOctober superintendent1, of2020; public instruction may adopt rules to implement this section.Sec.

and(iii) By September 1, 2024, for directors of school districts or board members of districts that do not fall under (a)(i) or (ii) of this subsection.(b) All school district directors and educational service district board members must take the consultation training by September 1, 2024.(c) All directors of school districts or board members of districts that take the tribal consultation training under this section must renew the certification of completion of the training within five years of the date of initial certification.(3) The office of the superintendent of public instruction may adopt rules to implement this section.Sec.

The report shall include information about any obstacles encountered, and any strategies under development to overcome them.(4)them.--- The school directors' association shall partner with the office of native education within the office of the superintendent of public instruction to gather data for the purposes of the report required in subsection (3) of this section.--- END ---