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NY A00250
Bill
Status
1/8/2025
Primary Sponsor
Nily Rozic
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AI Summary
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Requires school districts to annually prepare language assistance plans assessing translation and interpretation needs, available resources, and budget requirements for serving non-English speaking parents and guardians
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Mandates school districts determine each enrolled student's parents' primary language within 30 days of enrollment and whether they need language assistance services to communicate with schools
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Requires translation of report cards, permission slips, and documents sent to 1,000+ parents that require responses or actions into "covered languages" (2-8 most commonly spoken non-English languages depending on district size)
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Obligates school districts to provide telephone interpretation services during business hours in covered languages and post multilingual signs indicating availability of language assistance at schools and offices
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Requires annual reporting to local boards of education beginning December 2026 on number of non-English speaking parents, translated documents produced, interpretation services provided, and language assistance budgets
Legislative Description
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.
Last Action
referred to education
1/7/2026