HB 1511 - DIGEST |
(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB) |
Allocates additional funding to provide supplemental instruction and services for underachieving students in schools with high concentrations of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals and students who are eligible pupils in the transitional bilingual instruction program. |
Requires a school building, in order to qualify for a learning assistance concentration allocation, to have a combined percentage of students qualified for free and reduced-price meals in the prior school year and students who are eligible pupils in the transitional bilingual instruction program. |
Requires a school district, in order to receive a foster-homeless student learning assistance allocation, to provide documentation of its number of enrolled foster or homeless students to the superintendent of public instruction. |
Allows funds for the learning assistance program to be expended for purposes of reading and literacy improvement strategy. |