Identification and Assessment of Students Whose Primary Home Language is Other Than English Clause Samples
Identification and Assessment of Students Whose Primary Home Language is Other Than English. Action Item
1. The School will take the following steps to ensure that every student with a primary home language other than English (PHLOTE) will be identified by the School:
a. The School will develop and implement a written policy and procedure for identifying and assessing all PHLOTE students in the School, including students from low incidence language groups.2
b. As part of the above policy and procedure, consistent with Title VI, the School will continue to distribute a Home Language Survey (HLS) in Spanish, English and Portuguese, and also will provide the HLS in as many other languages known to be spoken in the community, as are practical. As an alternative to providing printed HLS forms to national origin minority LEP parents and guardians (collectively hereafter, “LEP parents”) for low incidence language groups, the School may provide interpreters or other available resources to assist those LEP parents in completing the HLS.
c. The School will ensure that, consistent with Title VI, the HLS is designed and administered such that it appropriately identifies students in need of ELL services (e.g., the HLS will trigger an assessment if there is at least one affirmative response to its questions). The School will also ensure that all students identified as PHLOTE are assessed after receiving student records from the sending school district, in order 1 The School has expressed that it will promptly comply with the terms of this Resolution Agreement, and if so, the School anticipates that OCR will close the monitoring if all terms have been met. 2 “Low incidence language groups” are those languages spoken at the School other than Portuguese or Spanish, including but not limited to Haitian Creole and Cape Verdean. to determine the appropriate ELL services to be provided.
1. By June 30, 2018, , the School will submit to OCR for review and approval, its procedures for interpreting HLS responses and identification and assessment of students in need of ELL services, its HLS in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and in all other languages for which it has developed a HLS for the 2017-2018 school year, and its procedures for identifying and assessing all PHLOTE students in other low incidence language groups; and, to the fullest extent practicable, providing interpreters to assist LEP parents in completing the HLS to assure that LEP parents have adequate notice of or meaningful access to the School’s educational program consistent with Title VI.
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Identification and Assessment of Students Whose Primary Home Language is Other Than English. Action Item
1. The District will take steps to ensure that every student with a primary home language other than English (PHLOTE) will be identified by the District. By January 31, 2015, the District will develop and implement a policy and procedure for identifying all PHLOTE students in the District, including students from low incidence language groups. As part of this policy and procedure, consistent with Title VI, the District will distribute a Home Language Survey (HLS) in Spanish and English, and also will provide the HLS in as many other languages known to be spoken in the community, as are practical. As an alternative to providing printed HLS forms to national origin minority LEP parents and guardians (collectively hereafter, “LEP parents”) for low incidence language groups, the District may provide interpreters to assist those LEP parents in completing the HLS. The District will ensure that, consistent with Title VI, the HLS is designed and administered such that it appropriately identifies students in need of ELL services (e.g., the HLS will trigger an assessment if there is at least one affirmative response to its questions).
2. The District will take steps to ensure that every student identified as PHLOTE consistent with Action Item 1 is assessed by the District to determine the appropriate ELL services to be provided. By January 31, 2015, the District will develop and implement a policy and procedure for assessing all PHLOTE students in the District. Reporting Requirements1
1. By January 31, 2015, the District will submit to OCR for review and approval, its procedures for interpreting HLS responses and identification of students in need of ELL services.
1 OCR will attempt to review and approve all documentation submitted to OCR pursuant to the Reporting Requirements of Sections A through K of this Resolution Agreement within 90 calendar days of receipt.
2. By January 31, 2015, the District will submit to OCR for review and approval, a copy of its HLS in English and Spanish, and in all other languages for which it has developed a HLS, for the 2014-2015 school year.