Requires that school districts budget and expend Learning Assistance Program (LAP) funds: (1) immediately and temporarily to identify and address the academic and nonacademic needs of students resulting from and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic; and (2) beginning with the end of the COVID-19 emergency or September 1, 2025, whichever is later, using the framework of the Washington Integrated Student Supports Protocol.
Makes changes to requirements and restrictions on the use of LAP funds.
Directs the Center for the Improvement of Student Learning to review and report on programs and practices used in the LAP.
Expands the Extended Learning Opportunity Program to ninth and tenth grades.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SHB 1208), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
AN ACT Relating to modifying the learning assistance program to enable school districts to focus on identifying and addressing student academic deficits in basic skills resulting from or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic by granting greater local control over, accountability for, and flexibility with program funds, and to authorize continued flexible use of program funds through the framework of the Washington integrated student supports protocol;