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HB 1775 Students; school boards report to Board of Education number enrolled in English as second language.

Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

English as a Second Language; report. Requires local school boards to annually collect data on the number of students enrolled in English as a Second Language courses and report such data to the Board of Education, as well as provide the number of students unable to provide a birth record upon admission to the public schools. The Board of Education must compile all such data and report it, aggregated by school division, to the Governor and the General Assembly.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Immigration status of the parents of public school students. Requires that the person enrolling a pupil in a public school must indicate the citizenship or immigration status of such pupil's parents. The bill provides that the child of a parent lacking citizenship or lawful immigration status documentation must still be admitted into the public school, but the immigration status information must be reported to the Secretary of Education annually. Additionally, the Secretary of Education must submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the number of children whose parents lack lawful status documentation attending public school in the Commonwealth and the cost of such students' education, aggregated by school division.