FILE:  JQH

Cf:  IDDH

LANGUAGE MINORITY STUDENTS

It is the policy of the Orleans Parish School Board to provide all language minority students and their parents or guardians with meaningful and effective communications. To assist parents and guardians in making well-informed decisions regarding academic and extracurricular school programs, all schools shall provide written or verbal communications with language minority students and their parents or guardians in a language they can best understand.

When interpretation and translation is necessary to communicate effectively with students and their parents and guardians, schools shall use only persons who are deemed competent to provide interpretation and translation services, who have been appropriately trained by a district approved agency, and who appear on the Orleans Parish School Board's list of approved interpreters and translators. No school district or school staff shall use students, family members or friends as interpreters or translators for official business of the Orleans Parish School Board.

Ref:     20 USC 6801 et seq. (Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students)

20 USC 7401 et seq. (Indian Education)

Orleans Parish School Board