SB 5410 Becomes Law

5/9/2019

After several years of work by NIBA members across the state of Washington, on May 8th, Governor Jay Inslee signed SB 5410 into law, thus ensuring that, by law, WA State "institutions of higher education must establish a coordinated, evidence-based policy for granting as many undergraduate college credits, as possible and appropriate, to students who have earned minimum scores of...four on standard-level and higher-level international baccalaureate exams.... Each institution of higher education must create a process for retroactively awarding international baccalaureate exam undergraduate college credits under the terms of this section to students who first enrolled in the institution of higher education in the 2018-19 academic year."

Many thanks to all of the teachers, coordinators, and legislators who worked on this bill, including Ken Joling (IB Coordinator at Capital High School in Olympia) and David Quinn (IB Coordinator at Edmonds-Woodway High School in Edmonds), pictured here with the Governor.