Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify if the program requires yearly legislative approval beyond the initial appropriation.

Dual Language Immersion Program Grants for Instructional Materials

This law creates a grant program to provide $100,000 grants to schools and districts to buy instructional materials in partner languages for dual language immersion programs.

What This Bill Does

• Creates the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program.
• Appropriates $5,000,000 from the state budget to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to run this program.
• Provides one-time grants of $100,000 each to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for buying or making instructional materials in partner languages.
• Requires grant recipients to report how they spent the money by June 29, 2029.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools

Terms To Know

Dual language immersion program

A type of school program where students learn in two languages, usually English and another language like Spanish or Mandarin.

Instructional materials

Books, workbooks, videos, and other tools used to teach subjects in class.

Limits and Unknowns

• The program depends on yearly funding from the Legislature.
• Details about how schools will use the money are not fully explained.
• It is unclear which specific languages or programs will be supported by these grants.

Official Summary Text

AB 865, as amended, Mark González.
Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.
Existing law appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program for the purpose of expanding access to quality dual language learning and fostering languages that English learners bring to California’s education system. Under that program, the State Department of Education is required to award a minimum of 25 one-time Dual Language Immersion Grants over a period of 3 fiscal years of up to $380,000 per grant to an eligible entity to expand or establish dual language immersion programs.
This bill would establish the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant
Program and would
appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent
Program, to be administered by the Superintendent,
for purposes of providing one-time grants of $100,000 to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to increase available instructional materials in partner languages for dual language immersion programs at one or more schoolsites, as provided. The bill would require a grant recipient to report to the department, on or before June 29, 2029, on how grant funds were
expended and provide the department with a physical or digital copy of instructional materials purchased with the grant funds.
expended, including a list of any materials obtained or developed.
The bill
would require the department to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2029, that includes the data received from the grant recipients.
The bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied
toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

Current Bill Text

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