California Education Code

§ 30.5

EDC § 30.5 Effective Jan 1, 2002Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 1 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, bilingual education shall be defined as a system of instruction which builds upon the language skills of a pupil whose primary language is neither English nor derived from English. For purposes of this paragraph:

(1)“Primary language” is a language, other than English or a language derived from English, which is the language the pupil first learned.

(2)“Derived from English” means any dialect, idiom, or language derived from English. Both of the following shall be construed as being derived from English:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 750, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2002.