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CT HB06599
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/28/2015
Primary Sponsor
Susan Johnson
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AI Summary
- Eliminates the twenty-student minimum enrollment requirement for school districts to qualify for state bilingual education funding
- Requires the Department of Education to study the feasibility of regional educational service centers providing bilingual education services to districts with low English language learner enrollment
- Increases the maximum duration of bilingual instruction from current law to sixty months
- Eliminates the one-year delay in bilingual education funding to school districts
- Excludes English language learner student mastery examination results from school performance index and teacher evaluations until students complete at least twenty consecutive months of bilingual or English as a second language instruction in Connecticut
- Mandates funding for bilingual education programs at levels necessary to match educational achievement of English language learner students to non-English language learner students
Legislative Description
An Act Concerning English Language Learner Programs.
Last Action
Referred to Joint Committee on Education
1/28/2015
Committee Referrals
Education1/28/2015
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