Each school is required to provide a core EL program (English Language Development) which ensures that English learners have access to both English and grade level  content.  The English language development must be supplemental.and staff must be paid with state and local funding only.  

 **All EL students (Levels 1.0 through 4.9) must be provided the core EL program in addition to core instruction;

**Instruction in the core EL program must be provided by qualified teachers trained in EL strategies.

**The core EL program, per federal law, must be based on effective approaches and methodologies that demonstrate success in increasing English language proficiency, reasonably calculated for success in terms of resources and personnel, and regularly evaluated to ensure the language barriers are being overcome.

Lau v. Nichols (1974) –The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and its decision upheld the OCR’s 1970 memo, If English is the mainstream language of instruction, then measures have to be taken to ensure that instruction is adapted to address those children's linguistic characteristics (Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563, 94 S. Ct. 786, 1974)

Castaneda v. Pickard (1981), The 5th Circuit set out a three-part test to determine if districts have taken “appropriate action” address language development of their ELLs::

(1) is the program informed by an educational theory recognized as sound by some experts in the field;
(2) are the programs and practices “reasonably calculated to implement effectively the educational theory adopted by the school”; and
(3) does the program “produce results indicating that the language barriers confronting students are actually being overcome.” 

There are various models  that consistent English Language Development can be accomplished. Here are our models used throughout Lafayette School Corporation, here are our current models:

• Intervention groups
• EL Team or EL Teacher
• ENL High School Class
• Co-teaching ( EL and Content Teacher)
• ELD must be 30-45 minutes 4-5 days a week!