SENATE BILL REPORT
SB 5349
AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 15, 1993
Brief Description: Renaming educational clinics.
SPONSORS: Senators Pelz and Moyer
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Majority Report: Do pass.
Signed by Senators Pelz, Chairman; McAuliffe, Vice Chairman; Gaspard, Hochstatter, McDonald, Moyer, Nelson, M. Rasmussen, Rinehart, Skratek, A. Smith, and Winsley.
Staff: Susan Mielke (786‑7439)
Hearing Dates: February 10, 1993; February 15, 1993
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
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 diagnose individual educational abilities, determine individual goals and courses of instruction, and evaluate each client's progress.
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.
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 "educational center."
Appropriation: none
Revenue: none
Fiscal Note: none requested
TESTIMONY FOR:
The name "educational clinic" implies to some that students are sick and the services they receive will be medical in nature.
TESTIMONY AGAINST: None
TESTIFIED: Sharon Case, Washington Association of Educational Clinics (pro); Judy Schwarz, Director, Another Door to Learning, Tacoma; Betty Drost, board member, Another Door to Learning, Tacoma
HOUSE AMENDMENT(S):
An internal reference to a statute that has been repealed is deleted.