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                                                     SENATE BILL 5480

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Senators Roach and McAuliffe

Read first time 01/29/93.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Changing transitional bilingual instruction provisions.

          AN ACT Relating to transitional bilingual instruction; and amending RCW 28A.180.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.180.030 and 1990 c 33 s 164 are each amended to read as follows:

          As used in RCW 28A.180.010 through 28A.180.080, unless the context thereof indicates to the contrary:

          (1) "Transitional bilingual instruction" means:

          (a) A system of instruction which uses two languages, one of which is English, as a means of instruction to build upon and expand language skills to enable the pupil to achieve competency in English.  Concepts and information are introduced in the primary language and reinforced in the second language:  PROVIDED, That the program shall include testing in the subject matter in English; ((or))

          (b) ((In those cases in which the use of two languages is not practicable as established by the superintendent of public instruction and unless otherwise prohibited by law, an alternative)) A system of instruction which may include English as a second language and is designed to enable the pupil to achieve competency in English; or

(c) Other methods of instruction approved by the superintendent of public instruction designed to enable the pupil to achieve competency in English.

          (2) "Primary language" means the language most often used by the student for communication in his/her home.

          (3) "Eligible pupil" means any enrollee of the school district whose primary language is other than English and whose English language skills are sufficiently deficient or absent to impair learning.

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