§ 16-7.1-9. Student language assistance investment fund.
The general assembly recognizes the strength Rhode Island’s growing cultural diversity brings to the overall economic and social health of the state. Therefore, the general assembly establishes the Student Language Assistance Investment Fund to target state resources to assist students who require additional language educational services. The general assembly shall annually appropriate some sum and distribute it based on each district’s proportion of limited English proficiency students statewide in the reference year as defined in § 16-7-16. These resources shall be used to close student performance gaps in accordance with the district’s strategic plan pursuant to § 16-7.1-2.
History of Section.P.L. 1997, ch. 30, art. 31, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 117, art. 13, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Section 16-7.1-1. - Legislative findings.
Section 16-7.1-2. - Accountability for student performance.
Section 16-7.1-3. - Accountability for district and school expenditures.
Section 16-7.1-4. - Annual report by Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Section 16-7.1-5. - Intervention and support for failing schools.
Section 16-7.1-6. - Core instruction equity fund.
Section 16-7.1-8. - Student equity investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-9. - Student language assistance investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-10. - Professional development investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-11. - Early childhood investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-11.1. - Full day kindergarten investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-12. - Student technology investment fund.
Section 16-7.1-13. - Repealed.
Section 16-7.1-14. - Joint commission.
Section 16-7.1-15. - The Paul W. Crowley Rhode Island student investment initiative.
Section 16-7.1-16. - Targeted school aid.
Section 16-7.1-17. - Urban after-school programs.