Section 3115 (g) [Supplement not supplant]

■Title III can only be used as a supplement, not as the main budget to fund a program.
■It should not be used to hire FTEs (Full Time Employees) or run programs that have no other funding source.

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Section 3122 (a)(3)(A) [AMAOs-Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives]

■We need to show that: our ELL students are learning English better each year, an increasing percentage of them are becoming fluent each year, and that they are making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) each year.

Section 3211 (b)[Improvement plan]

■If a school fails to meet AYP for 2 consecutive years, it must develop an improvement plan to show how they will overcome said failure.

Section 3215 [Capacity building]

■The district and schools cannot count on continued financial support for ESL programs. We should plan how to fund ESL programs with existing funds or find funding through the Board of Education.

Section 3302 (a) [Parental notification]

■The parent must be notified before the child is inducted into the ESL program. Most of what is mandated in this section is covered by sending the parent notification form provided by the district.

Section 3302 (b) [Notification of failure to meet AMAOs]

■Each school must inform the parents of ELL students when they have failed to meet the Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives each year.

Section 3302 (c) [Understandable parent notices]

■Schools must do their best to make parent notices understandable to the parent. Spanish translation should become a priority.

Section 3302 (d) [ELL latecomers]

■The school has to notify the parents of their student’s participation in the ESL program within 2 weeks if they did not enroll at the beginning of the year.

Section 3302 (e) [Parent participation]

■Schools should proactively reach out to the parents of ELL students to try to involve them in the academic process of their children. Schools should send notices and hold regular meetings to allow these parents a venue to have a say in their child’s education.

Section 3302 (f) [Surname admission or exclusion]

■The practice of placing a student in the ESL program based on their surname is against the law. Neither should they be excluded from programs based solely on their surname.

(Contributed by Kim Albers on http://connectingwithesl.edublogs.org)​