Harmony seeks bilingual-program exceptions at multiple campuses citing dispersed language populations
Staff told the board Harmony applied for exceptions at campuses where 20+ students speaking the same language in a grade cannot be served with a bilingual program due to geographic dispersion; nine Central Texas exception requests were noted.
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The ESL director told trustees state rules require a campus to offer bilingual programming when 20 or more students in the same grade speak the same language, but Harmony's geographically dispersed enrollment sometimes makes on-site bilingual programs impractical. "In Texas if you have 20 or more students speaking the same language in the same grade level in the district then you are supposed to offer a bilingual program," the presenter said, adding the district applied for nine exceptions in Central Texas this year.
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