SENATE BILL REPORT

                                    HB 2320

           AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 26, 1992

Brief Description:  Changing the name of educational clinics to education centers.

SPONSORS: Representatives Peery, Brough, Winsley and J. Kohl

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

      Signed by Senators Bailey, Chairman; Erwin, Vice Chairman; Craswell, Metcalf, Murray, Oke, Pelz, and Rinehart.

Staff:  Mich'l Prentice Needham (786‑7439)

Hearing Dates: February 26, 1992

BACKGROUND:

An educational clinic is a profit or nonprofit private school that teaches basic academic skills, as well as student achievement motivation and employment orientation.

Educational clinics are certified by the State Board of Education and reimbursed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for common school dropouts that meet specified criteria.

Educational clinics diagnose individual educational abilities, determine individual goals and courses of instruction, and evaluate each client's progress.

The present name "educational clinic" reportedly has caused some confusion with medical clinics and school programs offering various medical services.

SUMMARY:

The name "educational clinic" is changed to "education center" in the statutes.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested

TESTIMONY FOR:

The name needs to be changed to avoid confusion with health clinics.

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  PRO:  Sharon Case, Washington Association of Educational Clinics