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):

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