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Board approves first reading to rename 'English learner' policy to 'multilingual learner' and keep implementation detail in policy
Summary
In a first reading, the board accepted revisions to policy F22 that adopt VSBA language, add definitions for multilingual learners, and change EL labeling to ML; board members favored keeping implementation language in policy for transparency.
The Colchester School Board voted to approve the first reading of policy F22, the district’s policy on students who are English learners, with language changes to adopt the Vermont School Boards Association (VSBA) model and to update terminology to "multilingual learners."
District administrators said the 2018 policy was updated to include VSBA model language and explicit definitions for the…
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