Amendment ID: S2395-1-R1

Redraft Amendment 1

Ensuring Individual Student Success

Ms. Chang-Diaz moves to amend the bill by inserting after section 10 the following section:-

“SECTION 10A. Not later than July 1, 2017, the department of elementary and secondary education shall establish guidelines for school districts to assist in supporting English learners who do not meet anticipated benchmarks in attaining English proficiency. The guidelines shall include: (i) ways for school districts to provide individualized goals and plans for English learners who are not meeting anticipated benchmarks in attaining English proficiency; (ii) best practices for ensuring that English learners meet individualized goals and plans to meet benchmarks in attaining English proficiency; and (iii) ways for school districts to share best practices among each other in assisting English learners in gaining English proficiency.

School districts shall provide a copy of such guidelines to the parents or guardians of each English learner, in the parent’s or guardian’s primary language, at the beginning of each school year, or upon enrollment of the student in an English Learner program if not concurrent with the beginning of the school year.