Multilingual Learners Clause Samples

Multilingual Learners. The Network shall ensure each School shall implement a program for Multilingual Learner (MLL) students that uses efficient and effective techniques to provide MLL students with the English language skills they need to meaningfully and equally participate in each School’s mainstream English language instructional program. To satisfy the three-pronged test set forth in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (1981), the Network must ensure each School meets the needs of MLL students in several critical areas, as follows: a. Each School shall follow the District’s procedures for identifying, assessing, monitoring and exiting MLL students, consistent with state and federal law. b. The Network is required to provide and demonstrate at each School evidence of an English language development block for all MLL students that uses research-based curriculum and resources specifically selected by the School for MLL students. c. The Network shall provide at each School Transitional Native Language Instruction (TNLI); or an equivalent in native language supports if it is serving a significant number of MLL students; or provide a program based on an educational theory recognized as sound by experts in the field or that is considered by experts as a legitimate experimental strategy with the resources and personnel to implement this theory effectively. Note: if the Network wants to make changes to programming at a school that impacts the Native Language Instruction requirements outlined in the school’s DPS MLL Programming MOU, the Network must submit a formal request to DPS for review and approval by District staff. If the proposed changes would alter the approval resolution or the charter contract, the changes must be approved by the Board of Education. d. The Network shall assess whether the program at each School is being implemented with fidelity and conduct ongoing evaluation and adjustment of programs to ensure language barriers are actually being overcome. e. The Network shall provide at each School English Language Acquisition (ELA) program services by ELA teachers who are fully ELA qualified. f. Each School shall identify a school administrator, or an administrator-designee, with ELA expertise to provide oversight and evaluate the effectiveness of ELA services provided by each School. The District and Network will work collaboratively to ensure that the ELA program of each School complies with state and federal law as well as any court order applicable to the District’s ELL programs...

Multilingual Learners. A. The School shall provide all necessary and appropriate financial and other resources and support required to follow District policy, any future agreement or plan between the District and any state or federal oversight authorities concerning Multilingual Learners (“MLs”), and all applicable state and federal laws and regulations concerning the identification of and delivery of appropriate educational services to students who are Multilingual Learners in order to enable them to acquire sufficient English language proficiency to participate in mainstream English language instructional programs. B. As part of its enrollment procedures, the School shall conduct a home language survey for purposes of determining whether English language acquisition support services are necessary. Consistent with District procedures, the School shall submit the results of surveys to the District’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education Department. For those students identified as requiring further assessment under state and federal law via the state English language proficiency assessment, the School shall be responsible for timely administering such assessments and reporting results to the District. The School shall be responsible to report to the District annually as referenced below on the progress of all identified ML students regarding achievement on annual measurable achievement objectives as assessed during the annual testing window established by the CDE. The District will provide access to all District- sponsored trainings regarding assessment and provision of English Language Development (ELD) services. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Contract, the School shall annually submit a narrative report and supporting data documenting compliance with all requirements of the federal Equal Educational Opportunity Act, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That report shall be annually delivered to the District no later than July 1, and comprehensively track all sections and related requirements referenced in Part II of the “Dear Colleague” letter dated January 7, 2015, by the United States Department of Justice and United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. C. In furtherance of this section, the School agrees to comply, including without limitation the provisions regarding the delivery of ML instruction, training and qualifications of administrators and teachers, translation and interpreter services for Limited English proficien...