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Warwick officials outline staffing, translation needs as RIDE updates multilingual-learner rules
Summary
District multilingual-learner staff told the Warwick School Committee that proposed RIDE regulations would require more teachers, a family liaison, and expanded translation and curriculum supports; administrators said compliance will take five years and will likely need new hires and funding to avoid an unfunded mandate.
Tracy, the district's multilingual learner coordinator, told the Warwick School Committee on Feb. 11 that proposed regulations from the Rhode Island Department of Education would require substantial changes to how the district serves multilingual learners, including hiring roughly six additional MLL teachers, elevating the coordinator role to an administrator, and expanding translation and family-support services.
The presentation, which administration said was based on RIDE's current draft, noted a rapid increase in the district's MLL population: the coordinator reported about 253 MLL students at one point during the year, a figure that rose to 299 in the days before the presentation. "We're at 171% from school year '13 to '23," the coordinator said,…
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