In addition to any
other powers and duties as provided by law, the powers and duties
of the superintendent of public instruction shall be:
(1) To have supervision over all matters pertaining to the
public schools of the state;
(2) To report to the governor and the legislature such
information and data as may be required for the management and
improvement of the schools;
(3) To prepare and have printed such forms, registers,
courses of study, rules for the government of the common schools,
and such other material and books as may be necessary for the
discharge of the duties of teachers and officials charged with
the administration of the laws relating to the common schools,
and to distribute the same to educational service district
superintendents;
(4) To travel, without neglecting his or her other official
duties as superintendent of public instruction, for the purpose
of attending educational meetings or conventions, of visiting
schools, and of consulting educational service district
superintendents or other school officials;
(5) To prepare and from time to time to revise a manual of
the Washington state common school code, copies of which shall be
provided in such numbers as determined by the superintendent of
public instruction at no cost to those public agencies within the
common school system and which shall be sold at approximate
actual cost of publication and distribution per volume to all
other public and nonpublic agencies or individuals, said manual
to contain Titles 28A and 28C RCW, rules related to the common
schools, and such other matter as the state superintendent or the
state board of education shall determine. Proceeds of the sale
of such code shall be transmitted to the public printer who shall
credit the state superintendent's account within the state
printing plant revolving fund by a like amount;
(6) To file all papers, reports and public documents
transmitted to the superintendent by the school officials of the
several counties or districts of the state, each year separately.
Copies of all papers filed in the superintendent's office, and
the superintendent's official acts, may, or upon request, shall
be certified by the superintendent and attested by the
superintendent's official seal, and when so certified shall be
evidence of the papers or acts so certified to;
(7) To require annually, on or before the 15th day of
August, of the president, manager, or principal of every
educational institution in this state, a report as required by
the superintendent of public instruction; and it is the duty of
every president, manager, or principal, to complete and return
such forms within such time as the superintendent of public
instruction shall direct;
(8) To keep in the superintendent's office a record of all
teachers receiving certificates to teach in the common schools of
this state;
(9) To issue certificates as provided by law;
(10) To keep in the superintendent's office at the capital
of the state, all books and papers pertaining to the business of
the superintendent's office, and to keep and preserve in the
superintendent's office a complete record of statistics, as well
as a record of the meetings of the state board of education;
(11) With the assistance of the office of the attorney
general, to decide all points of law which may be submitted to
the superintendent in writing by any educational service district
superintendent, or that may be submitted to the superintendent by
any other person, upon appeal from the decision of any
educational service district superintendent; and the
superintendent shall publish his or her rulings and decisions
from time to time for the information of school officials and
teachers; and the superintendent's decision shall be final unless
set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction;
(12) To administer oaths and affirmations in the discharge
of the superintendent's official duties;
(13) To deliver to his or her successor, at the expiration
of the superintendent's term of office, all records, books, maps,
documents and papers of whatever kind belonging to the
superintendent's office or which may have been received by the
superintendent's for the use of the superintendent's office;
(14) To administer family services and programs to promote
the state's policy as provided in RCW 74.14A.025;
(15) To promote the adoption of school-based curricula and
policies that provide quality, daily physical education for all
students, and to encourage policies that provide all students
with opportunities for physical activity outside of formal
physical education classes;
(16) To perform such other duties as may be required by law.
[2006 c 263 § 104; 2005 c 360 § 6; 1999 c 348 § 6; 1992 c 198 § 6; 1991 c 116 § 2; 1990 c 33 § 251; 1982 c 160 § 2; 1981 c 249 § 1; 1977 c 75 § 17; 1975 1st ex.s. c 275 § 47; 1971 ex.s. c 100 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 176 § 102; 1969 ex.s. c 223 § 28A.03.030. Prior: 1967 c 158 § 4; 1909 c 97 p 231 § 3; RRS § 4523; prior: 1907 c 240 § 1; 1903 c 104 § 9; 1901 c 177 § 5; 1901 c 41 § 1; 1899 c 142 § 4; 1897 c 118 § 22; 1891 c 127 §§ 1, 2; 1890 pp 348-351 §§ 3, 4; Code 1881 §§ 3155-3160; 1873 p 419 §§ 2-6; 1861 p 55 §§ 2, 3, 4. Formerly RCW 28A.03.030, 28.03.030, 43.11.030.]
NOTES:
Findings -- Purpose -- Part headings not law -- 2006 c 263: See notes following RCW 28A.150.230.
Findings -- Intent -- 2005 c 360: See note following RCW 36.70A.070.
Intent -- 1999 c 348: See note following RCW 28A.205.010.
Severability -- Effective date -- 1992 c 198: See RCW 70.190.910 and 70.190.920.
Severability -- 1982 c 160: "If any provision of this amendatory act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [1982 c 160 § 4.]
Rights preserved -- Severability -- 1969 ex.s. c 176: See notes following RCW 28A.310.010.
Studies -- 1969 ex.s. c 283: "The superintendent of public
instruction is directed to develop, prepare and make available
information as follows:
(1) A budgetary study of the fiscal impact which would
result from payment to substitute teachers, who are on a
continuing basis of twelve or more days within any calendar
month, at a rate of pay commensurate with their training and
experience and at a per diem salary in proportion to the salary
for which that teacher would be eligible as a full time teacher;
(2) A study showing the percentage of high school graduates
who go on to an institution of higher education, including
community colleges, the distribution of such students, and the
percentage thereof which continue in higher education through the
various grades or years thereof; and
(3) A study of the fiscal impact of establishing one hundred
and eighty days as the base salary period for all contracts with
certificated employees." [1969 ex.s. c 283 § 8.]
Severability -- 1969 ex.s. c 283: See note following RCW 28A.150.050.