HB 1163 — Concerning expanded learning opportunity programs.

H-1909.1SUBSTITUTEZ-0292.2HOUSE HOUSE BILL 1163State of Washington66th Legislature2019 Regular SessionByHouseSessionByRepresentatives Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Kloba, Jinkins, Valdez, Ortiz-Self, Thai, Pollet, and Stanford;

by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction)READInstructionRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/22/19.AN01/16/19.Referred to Committee on Education.AN ACT Relating to expanded learning opportunity programs;

Research has shown that highhigh-quality quality expanded learning opportunities can help close opportunity gaps and complement what students are learninglearning.(2) in the classroom.(2) The legislature finds that expanded learning opportunities can occur inside or outside of the traditional school day and can enhance academic, experiential, and social-emotional learning.

Expanded learning programs help schools move beyond the constraints of the regular day and embrace the opportunities the surrounding neighborhood canhas to offer by capitalizing on local resources, assets, and perspectives.(3) The legislature further finds that summer learning loss is a phenomenon where students lose academic skills duringover the summer break.

Summer learning loss affects all students, regardless of age, gender, socioeconomic status, or race,race; but the impact to students experiencing poverty is greater because they typically do not have access to the same extracurricular learning opportunities as their more wealthy peers.(4) Therefore, subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the legislature intends to authorize demonstration projects specifically to combat summer learning loss through expanded learning opportunities.

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These projects will alsoprovide the opportunity to demonstrate how expanded learning opportunities can mitigate summer learning loss and improve academic learning, social-emotional growth, and provide opportunities for students to have experiences that are not regularly offered within the traditional K–12 settings.NEWexperience.NEW SECTION.  Sec.

A new section is added to chapter 28A.630 RCW to read as follows:(1) The expanded learning grant program is established to create demonstration projects within selected school districts of up to five years in durationlength inthat selectedsupport schoolmore districtstime for instruction and state-tribalopportunities educationfor compactenrichment schoolsin order to combat summer learning loss and increase student achievementachievement.(2) throughThe additionaloffice of the superintendent of public instruction timeshall develop and increasedadminister opportunitiesthe expanded learning grant program.(3) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for enrichment.(2)this Thespecific purpose, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shallmay developaward grants of up to one million five hundred dollars annually, through a competitive process, to school districts or state-tribal education compact schools that propose to implement any one or more of the following:(a) Extend the school year calendar beyond one hundred eighty days;(b) Support implementation of a balanced school year calendar that consists of a year-round school schedule with a shorter summer break that is six to seven weeks and administerintersessions of two to three weeks spread throughout the remainder of the year;(c) Provide additional programing and supports during the traditional summer break as a strategy for offsetting summer learning loss;(d) Extend or modify the school day to allow for additional expanded learning opportunities;(e) Create a new teacher collaboration model that brings in additional educators or community-based organizations to provide expanded learning to students while freeing up educator time to engage in professional collaboration or planning time.(4) At a minimum, an applicant school district or state-tribal education compact school application for an expanded learning grant program.must include the following:(a) The proposed plan for expanding or extending the school day or year;(b) How the program will focus on improving student achievement and closing the educational opportunity gap;(c) How the school district or state-tribal education compact school plans to use the grant money;(d) Whether the proposed demonstration site will be a single school or include multiple schools within the school district;(e) Whether the school district or state-tribal education compact school will collaborate with community-based organizations to provide support for students and if so, the details of this collaboration;

Inand(f) meetingAn itsagreement dutiesto underprovide thisthe subsectioninformation (2),necessary thefor a program evaluation.(5) The office of the superintendent of public instruction shallshall:(a) solicitIdentify communitycriteria suggestionsfor awarding expanded learning grants, evaluate applicants, and involvement.award grant money;(b) Establish timelines for submitting and reviewing applications and award the first grants by December 1, 2019;(c) Prioritize school districts or state-tribal education compact schools that include schools identified for improvement through the Washington school improvement framework;(d) Create an evaluation plan that supports the development of an evidence base for the efficacy of the different types of expanded learning opportunities provided by demonstration sites.

SubjectThe toevaluation theplan availabilitymust ofinclude amountsimpacts appropriatedon forstudent thisoutcomes specificas purpose,measured theby office of the superintendentWashington ofschool publicimprovement instructionframework may,and throughidentification aof competitivescalable process,practices.(6) awardThe grantsoffice fromof the programsuperintendent of uppublic toinstruction onemay millionalso fiveuse hundrednonstate-provided dollarsfunds annually to eachsupport selectedthe schoolexpanded districtlearning orgrant state-tribalprogram.(7) educationFor compact school that proposes to implement one or more of the following:(a)purposes Extending the school year calendar beyond one hundred eighty days;(b) Supporting implementation of athis balancedsection, school"expanded yearlearning calendaropportunities" thatmeans:(a) consistsCulturally ofresponsive aenrichment year-round school schedule with a summer break of six or seven weeks, and two or three week intersessions throughout the remainder of the year;(c) Providing additional programming and supports during the traditional summer break as a strategy for offsetting summer learning loss;(d)activities, Extendingwhich ormay modifyingfocus theon: school day to allow for additional expanded learning opportunities;

and(e) Creating a new model for teacher collaboration that utilizes additional educators or community-based organizations to provide expanded learning opportunities to students while enabling educators to engage in professional collaboration or planning time.(3) An application from a school district or state-tribal education compact school for a grant under this section must, at a minimum, include the following:(a) A proposed plan for expanding or extending the school day or year;(b) A description of how the demonstration project will focus on improving student achievement and closing the educational opportunity gap;(c) A description of how the applicant intends to use the grant money;(d) A description of how the applicant will create a publicly available plan to report grant fund expenditures and disaggregate student outcomes;(e) An indication of whether the proposed demonstration site will be a single school or include multiple schools within the district;(f) An indication of whether the applicant will collaborate with community-based organizations to provide support for students and if so, a detailed description of the intended collaboration;

and(g) An agreement to provide the information necessary for a program evaluation.(4) In administering the program established by this section, the office of the superintendent of public instruction shall:(a) Identify criteria for evaluating grant applications and awarding grants.

The criteria identified and employed under this subsection (4)(a) must align with recommendations of the expanded learning opportunities council in its December 1, 2018, report to the legislature, the office of the superintendent of public instruction, and the governor;(b) Establish timelines for the submission and review of grant applications, and award the first grants by December 1, 2019;(c) Prioritize school districts or state-tribal education compact schools that include schools identified for improvement through the Washington school improvement framework;

and(d) Create a program evaluation plan that supports the development of an evidence base for the efficacy of the different types of expanded learning opportunities provided by school districts and state-tribal education compact schools receiving grants under this section.

The evaluation plan must be available to the public and must include:(i) Impacts on student outcomes as measured by the Washington school improvement framework;(ii) An identification of scalable practices;

and(iii) A reporting of expenditures.(5) The office of the superintendent of public instruction may use nonstate funds to support the program established by this section.(6) For the purposes of this section, "expanded learning opportunities" means:(a) Culturally responsive enrichment and learning activities, which may focus on: