Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division 18 - NETWORK OF QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING
Section 581-018-0553 - Funding: English Language Proficiency Standards Professional Learning Grant

(1) The Department shall allocate funds to target school districts or consortia of target school districts to establish and support Professional Learning Teams to lead workshops for educators to implement the English Language Proficiency Standards.

(2) Provided that the district has met the requirements described in OAR 581-018-0552, the Department shall award districts that participate in the Professional Learning Team Conferences a non-competitive grant based on their total number of English Learners by district.

(3) The Department shall determine the amount of each grant as follows: Each target district grant about equals the district' s number of English Language Learners multiplied by (the total amount available for distribution for the grants to districts divided by the total English Language Learners of all target school districts).

(4) Funds received by a school district under this section must be separately accounted for and may be used only to provide funding for the purposes described in the application of the grant recipient.