ELEVATE Act

2017-07-28

Introduced in House

Ensuring Linguistic Excellence and Vocational Aptitude by Teaching English Act or the ELEVATE Act

This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to count students who relocated from Puerto Rico (where Spanish is the primary language) in their English learner programs for purposes of calculating federal funding for such programs.

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