program after he or she is determined to be proficient in English. Authority: VI; EEOA; G.L. c. 71A, § 4 Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No CRITERION NUMBER ENGLISH LEARNER EDUCATION III. PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT Legal Standard ELE 7 Parent Involvement The district develops ways to include parents or guardians of ELL students in matters pertaining to their children’s education and ELE programs. Authority: VI; EEOA; Title III Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No CRITERION NUMBER ENGLISH LEARNER EDUCATION IV. CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION Standard ELE 8 Declining Entry to a Program The district provides English language support to students whose parents have declined entry to a sheltered English immersion, two-way bilingual or other ELE program. Authority: Title VI; EEOA; G.L. c. 71, §38Q1/2 Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No CRITERION NUMBER
Authority: Title VI; EEOA; G.L. c. 71, § 38Q1/2; 603 CMR 28.03(3)(a); c. 71A, § 7; c. 76, § 5; 603 CMR 26.03; 603 CMR 26.07(8) Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No CRITERION NUMBER Standard ELE 12 Equal Access to Nonacademic and Extracurricular Programs The district provides appropriate support, necessary, to ELL students to ensure that they have equal access to the nonacademic programs and extracurricular activities available to their English-speaking peers. Information provided to students about extracurricular activities and school events is provided to ELL students in a language they understand. Authority: Title VI; EEOA; G.L. c. 76, § 5; 603 CMR 26.06(2) Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No CRITERION NUMBER Legal Standard ELE 13 Follow-up Support The district actively monitors students who have exited an ELL education program for two years and provides language support services to those students, if needed. Authority: Title VI; EEOA; NCLB; Title III Rating: Implemented District Response Required: No
Informing educators of their obligation to attend trainings with their cohort group to earn the SEI endorsement. 3. Except at Commonwealth charter schools, any director of ELL programs who is employed in that role for one-half time or more has a Supervisor/Director license and an English as a Second Language, Transitional Bilingual Education or an ELL license. 4. If a district with 200 or more ELL students—including all charter schools with 200 or more ELL students—has a director of ELL programs, that director has an English as a Second Language, Transitional Bilingual Education, or an ELL license even if he or she is employed in that position for less than one-half time. (This requirement does not apply separately to Horace Mann charter schools.) Authority: Title VI; EEOA; G.L. c. 71, § 38G, §89(qq); St. 2002, c. 218, §§ 24, 25, 30; 603 CMR 7.04(3), 7.09(3); 603 CMR 7.14 (1) and (2); 603 CMR 14.07. Rating: Partially Implemented District Response Required: Yes Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Comments: District documentation indicated that not all district ESL teachers/tutors that provide students with ESL instruction hold an appropriate license or current waiver issued by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. CRITERION NUMBER Legal Standard ELE 15 Professional Development Requirements See comment in ELE 14. Districts, including all charter schools, maintain documentation of plans to make the SEI cohort training available to their core academic teachers of ELLs and the building administrators who supervise such teachers and to collaborate with the Department to facilitate the provision of the training and participation of district teachers and administrators in the training. . Districts awarded Title III funds must provide high-quality professional development to classroom teachers (including teachers in classroom settings that