Use of Home Language Survey
The Home Language
Survey 
is to be included as part of the district’s student enrollment
packet, and serves as the document that will determine a student’s
status as language minority.
If a language other than English is indicated for
any of the questions, the student is considered to be a language
minority student. Once this determination has been made, the following
must occur:
- Upon identification as language minority on the Home Language Survey, the formal English proficiency assessment test must be administered. Each Spring, all LEP students must participate in the LAS Links English proficiency assessment. Newly-enrolling students must be assessed for identification as LEP using the LAS Links Placement Test within thirty (30) days of enrollment at the beginning of the school year or within two (2) weeks during the school year.
- The results of the proficiency test will correlate to a level (1-5) of English proficiency, and may be used to measure annual growth.
- Parent notification of English proficiency test
results, and, if applicable, the district’s intent to place
the student in a specialized language development program.
- Implementation of the following points outlined
in the State-generated Guidelines to Satisfy Legal Requirements
of Lau v. Nichols :
- Age/grade appropriate placement
- Equal educational opportunity, which must include
daily English language development for Limited English Proficient
(LEP) students
- Instruction given by qualified personnel
- Individual Learning Plan (ILP) for each LEP
student
- Plan for exiting students from the language
development program
- Compliance with the State guidelines for retaining
and/or referring language minority students for Special Education
services
Note: Efforts
should be made to translate both the Home Language Survey and Parent
Notification forms into the preferred language of the parent(s).
Please direct questions
and comments about the web site to Dara N. López.
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