Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 200 - Board of Education › Chapter 20 - Council on Elementary and Secondary Education › Subchapter 30 - Student Supports › Part 3 - Regulations Governing the Education of English Language Learners › Section 200-RICR-20-30-3.5 - Program Standards

Current through June 14, 2024
A. ELL programs
				  shall:
1. Meet the linguistic and academic
				  needs of the English Language Learners as indicated by the identification and
				  assessment process.
2. Ensure that
				  all English Language Learners attain proficiency in speaking, listening to,
				  reading, and writing English at a level sufficient to enable them to succeed in
				  the school's general academic program.
3. Be aligned with:
a. Rhode Island's English-language
				  proficiency standards,
b. Common
				  Core State Standards (July, 2010), and
c. content area standards not addressed by
				  Common Core State Standards (July, 2010) (National Education Technology
				  Standards www.CNET.ISTE.org/students/s_stands.html; Fine Arts Standards of the
				  RI Arts Learning Network www.riartslearning.net/proficiency/; National
				  Standards for History Basic Edition, 1996
http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/
;
				  National Council for the Social Studies - NCSS Standards
www.ncss.org/standards/
).
4. Provide clear pathways for each
				  student to meet the Rhode Island Graduation-by-Proficiency
				  Requirements.
5. Use research-based
				  instructional practices recognized as sound by experts in the education of
				  English Language Learners at the elementary, middle, and high-school
				  levels.
6. Provide opportunities
				  for achievement in all content-area classes or courses through specialized
				  language instruction for English Language Learners until the student has
				  reached a level of English-language proficiency permitting him or her to
				  succeed in the LEA's general academic program.
7. Ensure equitable access to all services,
				  and materials that are provided to all other students.
8. Include sufficient personnel and resources
				  to effectively implement the program.
9. Provide for the maintenance, analysis and
				  use of data concerning student academic progress to help close all gaps in
				  English Language Learner achievement levels.
10. Ensure that specialized language
				  instruction for English Language Learners is provided by appropriately
				  certified and endorsed teachers who are highly qualified and who are provided
				  with regular, sustained, high-quality, job-embedded professional
				  development.
11. Be designed by LEA
				  administrators in consultation with:
a.
				  certified or endorsed ESL teachers,
b. endorsed bilingual-education
				  teachers,
c. parents of English
				  Language Learners,
d. ELL students,
				  and
e. building
				  administrators.
12. Be
				  distributed in the LEA's facilities in such a way that English Language
				  Learners are not inappropriately clustered away from students in the school's
				  regular education programs or assigned to only a restricted range of schools,
				  when other school-housing options are available to provide quality services
				  based on students' educational needs and scientifically research based
				  instructional models. Cooperative service agreements between LEAs shall not
				  operate in a way that abridges this principle.