Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - print number 2179a [A02179 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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