(a) A grant recipient shall use the grant for any of the following purposes:

(1) School administrator, teacher, and staff training specific to the implementation and maintenance of a dual language immersion program, developmental bilingual program for English learners, or early learning dual language learners program.

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(2) Recruitment of bilingual preschool, elementary, and secondary school teachers and paraeducators.

(3) Professional development for teachers after the initial establishment of the program.

(4) Ongoing outreach to families of pupils, including strategies for family engagement.

(5) Establishment and support of language learning professional learning communities for teachers.

(6) Instructional coaches with demonstrated expertise and experience in implementing a dual language immersion program, developmental bilingual program for English learners, or early learning dual language learners program.

(7) Standards-based instructional materials in target languages for proposed dual language immersion programs, developmental bilingual programs for English learners, or early learning dual language learners programs.

(b) A grant recipient shall use the grant to supplement funding used for ongoing program costs received pursuant to its local control funding formula allocation and federal funding, such as Title I, II, or III funding.

(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 763, Sec. 2. (AB 2514) Effective January 1, 2019.)