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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 264

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Ebersole, Betrozoff, Rayburn, Wang, Valle, Todd, Holland, P. King, Winsley, Cole and Long; by Superintendent of Public Instruction request

Read first time 1/25/85 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to teachers; adding a new section to chapter 28A.67 RCW; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.67 RCW to read as follows:

          The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules to establish and operate a beginning teachers assistance program if funds are provided by the legislature for the program.  The program shall provide for:

          (1) Assistance by a mentor teacher who will provide a source of continuing and sustained support to a beginning teacher, both in and outside the classroom;

          (2) Stipends for mentor teachers which shall not be deemed compensation for the purposes of the teachers' retirement system under chapter 41.32 RCW;

          (3) Workshops for the training of mentor teachers; and

          (4) The use of substitutes to give the mentor teacher and beginning teacher opportunities to jointly observe and evaluate teaching situations and to give the mentor teacher opportunities to observe and assist the beginning teacher in the classroom.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of one million three hundred ten thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30,1987, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this act.