BILL NO | A02179A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S02939-A
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SPONSOR | Rozic (MS) |
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COSPNSR | Bichotte, Colton, Ortiz, Simon, Weprin |
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MLTSPNSR | Abbate, Cook |
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Add Art 67 §§3330 - 3339, Ed L |
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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. |