(a) School districts shall conduct only one home language
survey of each student. The home language survey shall be administered
to each student new to the school district and to students previously
enrolled who were not surveyed in the past. School districts shall
require that the survey be signed by the student's parent or guardian
for each student in prekindergarten through Grade 8, or by the student
in Grades 9-12. The original copy of the survey shall be kept in the
student's permanent record.
(b) The home language survey shall be administered
in English and Spanish; for students of other language groups, the
home language survey shall be translated into the home language whenever
possible. The home language survey shall contain the following questions.
(1) "What language is spoken in your home most of the
time?"
(2) "What language does your child speak most of the
time?"
(c) Additional information may be collected by the
school district and recorded on the home language survey.
(d) The home language survey shall be used to establish
the student's language classification for determining whether the
school district is required to provide a bilingual education or English
as a second language program. If the response on the home language
survey indicates that a language other than English is used, the student
shall be tested in accordance with §89.1225 of this title (relating
to Testing and Classification of Students).
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