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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6532

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Wojahn, Bailey and Rinehart

Read first time 1/17/90 and referred to Committee on  Education.

AN ACT Relating to an in-service training program on academic efficiency and classroom management for teachers; creating a new section; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     (1) The superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with school districts, shall develop and administer an in-service training program designed to provide to two individuals per public school building during the 1989-91 biennium, up to three days of training in techniques to:  (a) Identify and improve current levels of academic efficiency and of effective classroom management; and (b) identify students with specific learning disabilities as defined in rules adopted by the superintendent of public instruction and methods of responding to the needs of such students in the regular classroom while maintaining effective classroom management and academic efficiency for all students in the classroom:  PROVIDED, That for school buildings with enrollment of two hundred fifty full-time equivalent students or fewer, one person shall be selected to receive the in-service training: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the in-service program created under this section shall be separate from any other in-service training program the legislature may establish or fund.  School districts may use existing models relating to techniques for enhancing classroom management and academic efficiency models relating to identifying students with specific learning disabilities and responding to their needs in the regular classroom to provide the in-service training.

          (2) Individuals eligible to attend are teachers, administrators, and teachers' aides.  The selection of the team shall be done cooperatively between the administrator, faculty, and aides within the building.  School building administrators are encouraged to use the individuals who receive the training as trainers to present an in-service training session for other school staff.

          (3) The in-service training program authorized by subsection (1) of this section shall not be part of the program of basic education required under Article IX of the state Constitution.

          This section shall expire July 1, 1991.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The sum of six hundred thousand 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 to allocate to educational service districts for the purposes of this act.