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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2352

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Prentice, Brumsickle, Cole, May, Anderson, Valle, Betrozoff, Leonard, Inslee, Rayburn, Wineberry, Rector, Kremen and Winsley

Read first time 1/10/90 and referred to Committees on Education/Appropriations.

AN ACT Relating to pilot tutoring programs; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     In a community that values learning, all persons are both students and teachers.  Often in teaching a concept the teacher thoroughly learns that concept.  It is also true that sometimes another student is better able to explain a concept to a student when a teacher has had difficulty finding just the right approach to help the student understand.  Helping someone else learn may also help a person to see the value of learning and cause him or her to try harder and reach farther than he or she might have without this experience.  To apply these considerations and help low-income students find employment which may encourage them to stay in school, the legislature intends to create the student-to-student pilot program.  The purpose of the program is to employ low-income high school age youth who are sophomores, juniors, or seniors to tutor kindergarten through ninth grade students.  The student acting as a tutor will reinforce his or her own skills, assist another student, and also earn money which may enable the low-income student to remain in school.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     (1) The student-to-student pilot program is hereby created to provide funding to a minimum of three districts to:

          (a) Employ low-income sophomores, juniors, and seniors to provide tutoring for students in grades kindergarten through nine; and

          (b) Pay the tutors at least the state minimum wage per hour.

          (2) Low-income students eligible for employment as tutors in this program shall be those students eligible for free or reduced priced lunches.

          (3) Tutoring shall be provided after school hours.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     Districts wishing to apply for student-to- student pilot program funds shall submit an application containing, at a minimum, the following information:

          (1) The method by which the district will identify low-income students eligible to become tutors;

          (2) The method for selecting students to receive tutoring services; and

          (3) The design of the tutoring program including:  Training for the tutors; coordination of classroom teachers with tutors; support, supervision, and evaluation of tutors; duration of the program including whether tutoring will continue through the summer; and management of the tutoring program.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     The superintendent of public instruction shall establish rules for the award of the pilot program money to districts.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.     This act shall expire June 30, 1993.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6.     The sum of one million dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for the operation of the student-to-student pilot program.  No more than ten percent of the money appropriated for this purpose shall be used by the superintendent of public instruction and local districts for administration of the program.