"Honoring Our Past As We Enter Our Future"
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"Honoring Our Past As We Enter Our Future"
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Foreign Language Assistance Programs and Emergency Immigrant Education
Foreign Language Assistance ProgramsThis program provides grants to pay for the Federal share of the
cost of innovative model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of foreign language
study for elementary and secondary school students. In awarding grants under this program, the Secretary supports
projects that-- Click here for more information from the U.S. Department of Education's Website Emergency Immigrant Education (EIE)The program provides formula grants to state education agencies to assist local education agencies that experience large increases in their student population due to immigration. Eligible students are those born outside the U.S. who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for less than 3 academic years. Eligible local educational agencies are those that enroll at least 500 students or where these students represent 3 percent of total enrollment. States may make subgrants to school districts based on the number of eligible students or may make awards on a discretionary basis. Grants are to be used to provide high-quality instruction to immigrant children and youth to help them make the transition into American society and meet the same challenging state performance standards expected of all children and youth. Under the law, the term "immigrant children and youth" means individuals age 3 through 21 who were not born in the United States and who have not been attending one or more schools in the United States for more than three full academic years. Click here for more information from the U.S. Department of Education's Website
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Presenters:
Ki Lee and Sue Kentworthy, Program Officers, U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs (OBEMLA)