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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 417

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Barrett, K. Wilson, R. King and Wang

Read first time 2/1/85 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to educational clinics; and amending RCW 28A.97.010.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 341, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. as amended by section 38, chapter 3, Laws of 1983 and RCW 28A.97.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1)  As used in this chapter, unless the context thereof shall clearly indicate to the contrary:

          Educational clinic means any private school operated on a profit or nonprofit basis or any alternative school operated by or on behalf of a common school district as a separate and distinct program which does the following:

          (a)  Is devoted to the teaching of basic academic skills, including specific attention to improvement of student motivation for achieving, and employment orientation.

          (b)  Operates on a clinical, client centered basis.  This shall include, but not be limited to, performing diagnosis of individual educational abilities, determination and setting of individual goals, prescribing and providing individual courses of instruction therefor, and evaluation of each individual client's progress in his or her educational program.

          (c)  Conducts courses of instruction by professionally trained personnel certificated by the state board of education according to rules and regulations promulgated for the purposes of this chapter and providing, for certification purposes, that a year's teaching experience in an educational clinic shall be deemed equal to a year's teaching experience in a common or private school.

          (2)  For purposes of this chapter, basic academic skills shall include the study of mathematics, speech, language, reading and composition, science, history, literature and political science or civics; it shall not include courses of a vocational training nature and shall not include courses deemed nonessential to the accrediting of the common schools or the approval of private schools under RCW 28A.04.120.

          (3)  The state board of education shall certify an education clinic only upon application and (a) determination that such school comes within the definition thereof as set forth in subsection (1) above and (b) demonstration on the basis of actual educational performance of such applicants' students which shows after consideration of their students' backgrounds, educational gains that are a direct result of the applicants' educational program.  Such certification may be withdrawn if the board finds that a clinic fails to provide adequate instruction in basic academic skills.  No educational clinic certified by the state board of education pursuant to this section shall be deemed a common school under RCW 28A.01.060 or a private school for the purposes of RCW 28A.02.201 through 28A.02.250.