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Bills aimed at extending Native language preservation, helping fund English learner programs
by Michael Woodel
January 16, 2019

Lawmakers introduced bills Monday to extend a pair of Native language preservation programs and supplement federal grants for programs serving English learner students with state and local funding.

The bills come out of the State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee, which met between the 2017 and 2019 sessions, and are supported by the Montana School Boards Association, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation and the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council, among others.

Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy, a Democrat from Crow Agency, sponsored the English learner bill, which would require the state to at least partially match federal grants to programs for students with limited proficiency in the English language. The bill would make $500,000 available to the Office of Public Instruction to match federal money if passed, equal to the amount of federal money the state received in 2017-18 to fund programs for students with limited English proficiency.

...Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, a Democrat from Box Elder, introduced a pair of bills that would extend the state Indian Language Preservation Program and the Cultural Integrity and Commitment Act through 2023.

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