Amendment ASA1-AB237

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, To 1995 ASSEMBLY BILL 237

April 25, 1995 - Offered by Committee on Education.

AB237-ASA1,1,2 An Act to create 118.19 (11) of the statutes; relating to: teacher training in phonics.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB237-ASA1, s. 1 Section 1. 118.19 (11) of the statutes is created to read:

AB237-ASA1,1,11 118.19 (11) Beginning on July 1, 1998, the state superintendent may not issue or renew a license that authorizes the holder to teach reading or language arts to pupils in any prekindergarten class or in any of the grades from kindergarten to 8 unless the applicant has successfully completed instruction preparing the applicant to teach reading and language arts using intensive systematic phonics. In this subsection, "intensive systematic phonics" means a method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by learning the phonetic value of letters, letter groups and syllables.

AB237-ASA1,1,12 (End)