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Northborough outlines multilingual learners changes after DESE updates language survey and access testing
Summary
District director Salvi Loyola briefed the committee on DESE's new language survey, revised ACCESS testing and a new rubric; Northborough serves 129 English learners and 69 former English learners and processed 82 language-survey cases July–Dec (46 qualified as English learners).
Salvi Loyola, Northborough’s director of multilingual learners, presented the district’s multilingual program and described recent updates from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) that affect identification and services.
Loyola said the state replaced the old "home language survey" with a broader "language survey" and introduced a DESE rubric tied to the…
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