SECTIONS 315-317 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 315-317

315. In furtherance of its constitutional and legal requirement to
offer special language assistance to children coming from backgrounds
of limited English proficiency, the state shall encourage family
members and others to provide personal English language tutoring to
such children, and support these efforts by raising the general level
of English language knowledge in the community. Commencing with the
fiscal year in which this initiative is enacted and for each of the
nine fiscal years following thereafter, a sum of fifty million
dollars ($50,000,000) per year is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund for the purpose of providing additional funding for free
or subsidized programs of adult English language instruction to
parents or other members of the community who pledge to provide
personal English language tutoring to California school children with
limited English proficiency.

315.5. (a) In furtherance of its constitutional and legal
requirement to offer special language assistance to children coming
from backgrounds of limited English proficiency, the state shall
encourage family members and others to provide personal English
language tutoring to those children, and support these efforts by
raising the general level of English language knowledge in the
community.
(b) Programs funded under this section shall be provided through
schools or community organizations.
(c) Funding for programs authorized under this section shall be
provided pursuant to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. Funds
shall be apportioned to the Superintendent for disbursement to
school districts for the purpose of providing funding under this
section for free or subsidized programs of adult English language
instruction to parents or other members of the community who pledge
to provide personal English language tutoring to improve the English
language proficiency of California school children with limited
English proficiency.

316. Programs funded pursuant to this section shall be provided
through schools or community organizations. Funding for these
programs shall be administered by the Office of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and shall be disbursed at the discretion of the
local school boards, under reasonable guidelines established by, and
subject to the review of, the State Board of Education.

316.5. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The more a parent or guardian is involved in the education of
his or her child the better the child will perform in school.
(2) English language proficiency is critical to academic success.
(b) As a condition for receiving funding under Section 315.5 for
the 2007-08 fiscal year, each school district shall develop a plan,
to be approved by the governing board of the school district,
certifying that it will do all of the following:
(1) Emphasize English language acquisition and tutoring skills for
parents whose primary language is not English.
(2) Whenever possible, operate Community-Based English Tutoring
(CBET) Programs at neighborhood schoolsites in order to provide full
articulation between CBET Programs and instructional programs for
school-aged English language learners.
(3) Describe in its plan how the program will encourage the
following:
(A) Opportunities for parent-child tutoring activities.
(B) Opportunities for the parent to become involved at the school
that his or her child attends.
(4) Describe how the program will document the following:
(A) Literacy training for adults that leads to English fluency and
the ability to provide educational support for children.
(B) Development of tutoring skills.
(5) Describe the projected goals of the program with respect to
participant educational achievement and the manner in which the
agency will measure and report progress in meeting its goals.
(6) Describe the manner in which the program will leverage
available funding from federal, state, and local sources in the area
proposed to be served by the agency.
(7) Include a program to recruit parents of K-12 English language
learners, especially parents of pupils enrolled in K-12 schools that
are eligible to participate in the High Priority Schools Grant
Program established under Article 3.5 (commencing with Section
52055.600) of Chapter 6.1 of Part 28.
(8) The plan shall demonstrate that the CBET Program meets the
following objectives in order to ensure that adult students in the
CBET Program provide the best possible tutoring to K-12 English
language learners:
(A) The adult students participating in the CBET Program shall
make measurable English language learning progress.
(B) The CBET Program shall be administered in accordance with
research-based strategies for teaching English language learners.
(C) The data collected under Section 317 shall be used by CBET
administrators and staff to inform curriculum, instruction,
assessment, research, and in-service staff development.
(c) As a condition for receiving funding under Section 315.5 for
the 2008-09 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the
governing board of the school district shall review, revise as
necessary, and approve the plan. The plan shall be reviewed, and
revised as necessary, not less than once every three years. During
its review, the governing board shall consider the data collected
under Section 317.
(d) For the purposes of this section, the term "parent" includes a
parent, legal guardian, primary caregiver, or an individual in loco
parentis.

317. (a) As a condition for receiving funds under Section 315.5 in
any fiscal year, a school district shall collect the following data
for use in updating its plans and to make available to the state as
requested:
(1) Improvement in adult English-as-a-second-language literacy
skill levels in reading, writing, and speaking the English language,
numeracy, problemsolving, and other literacy skills.
(2) Improvements in the attendance of pupils with
limited-English-language proficiency who have received tutoring from
adults who have been identified as participants in programs
established pursuant to Sections 315, 315.5, 316, and 316.5.
(b) A school district that receives funding under Section 315.5
shall provide a pretest and a posttest of reading achievement for
adult English-as-a-second-language pupils.
(c) The district shall review individual K-12 pupil data from the
English language development test administered under Section 60810
and the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program set forth
in Article 4 (commencing with Section 60640) of Chapter 5 of Part 33,
in order to determine whether there has been achievement progress
made by K-12 pupils who were tutored by Community-Based English
Tutoring (CBET) Program students.