In order to stay in compliance with some specific federal and state regulations such as NCLB and Title III requirements, not to mention any conditions agreed upon by accepting some governmental grants and funds, there are some documents that your school district should figure into the budget right off the bat.
Every state and school district has unique translation requirements however there are certain documents such as AYP (Annual Yearly Progress), Home Language Surveys or school registration forms that are more frequently required than other materials. Often, translations of specific documents are a prerequisite to receive federal or state funding. For example, assessment results such as AYP, including translated versions, must be sent to families 15 days in advance of school starting as mandated by Title I.
These types of education publications should automatically be incorporated into the annual translation budget so that your school district doesn’t run into any surprises six months into the school year.
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Maggie
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Archive for November, 2009
Budgeting for Education Translation: Don’t Forget Governmental Compliance and Federal Funding
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Thinking Ahead…
Do you ever stop to think about how many documents your school district produces for LEP parents and ELL students in a typical school year? Whether it’s information related to NCLB, student handbooks, swine flu informative pieces, community outreach, or even your Web site, there is a lot of content that gets published in one way or another. Now, think about how much of that material you need to translate into other languages for your community’s ESL population. All of those documents really add up over the year in terms of time and money.
Over the next few posts, I want to take some time to address easy ways your school district can get a handle on making the education translation budgeting process easier and planning ahead to look at your ongoing need for translation services from your Language Service Provider.
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Maggie
