SB 956
Allows foreign language immersion charter schools to enroll 4 year old children
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LR Number:
4702S.02I
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Last Action:
2/18/2010 - Second Read and Referred S Education Committee
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Effective Date:
August 28, 2010

Current Bill Summary

SB 956 – This act allows charter schools whose mission includes foreign language immersion and whose instruction is wholly conducted in a foreign language for at least the first two years of a student's enrollment to enroll four year old children and include them in their average daily attendance and weighted average daily attendance count for state aid. To be eligible for enrollment in a foreign language immersion charter school, a child must have attained the age of four before August 1 of the school year beginning in that calendar year. If the child resides in a school district that has authority to establish a resolution adopting a date between August 1 and October 1 for purposes of eligibility for enrollment, a child must have attained the age of four before the date established in the school district's resolution.

MICHAEL RUFF

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