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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6193

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Saling, Fleming, Bailey, Rinehart, Patrick, Conner, Johnson, Stratton and Sutherland

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 1/3/90.  Read first time 1/8/90 and referred to Committee on  Education.

AN ACT Relating to educational opportunities; amending RCW 28A.03.432; and making an appropriation.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 2, chapter 265, Laws of 1984 as amended by section 2, chapter 66, Laws of 1989 and RCW 28A.03.432 are each amended to read as follows:

          A program to increase the number of people from groups underrepresented in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences in this state shall be established by the University of Washington.  The program shall be administered through the University of Washington and designed to:

          (1) Encourage students in the targeted groups in the common schools, with a particular emphasis on those students in middle and junior high schools and the ((ninth)) sixth through twelfth grades, to acquire the academic skills needed to study mathematics, engineering, or related sciences at an institution of higher education;

          (2) Promote the awareness of career opportunities including the career opportunities of teaching in the fields of science and mathematics and the skills necessary to achieve those opportunities among students sufficiently early in their educational careers to permit and encourage the students to acquire the skills;

          (3) Promote cooperation among institutions of higher education, the superintendent of public instruction and local school districts in working towards the goals of the program; and

          (4) Solicit contributions of time and resources from public and private institutions of higher education, high schools, middle and junior high schools, and private business and industry.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the general fund to the University of Washington for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, to carry out the purposes of this act.  One full-time employee shall be hired to administer the program for middle and junior high schools.