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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 325

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Ebersole, Betrozoff and Walk)

Read first time 2/27/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to curriculum based assessment of students for learning disabled and transitional bilingual programs; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.03 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.03 RCW to read as follows:

          By July 1, 1989, the superintendent of public instruction shall complete a study and adopt, where appropriate, curriculum based assessment procedures, and rules allowing school districts to elect to use such procedures as early intervention attempts and as academic measures for supplementing a student's eligibility for participation in programs for the learning disabled under chapter 28A.13 RCW, and which could be used as an ongoing assessment for such students while in special education:  PROVIDED, That curriculum based assessment procedures cannot be used to deny a student the right to an assessment to determine eligibility or participation in learning disabilities programs.