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-2- <br />With the growing educational needs of the system's LEP population, the <br />increasing number of languages represented (62 plus), the challenges that <br />educators face in serving this segment of the student population, and the need <br />to address the effectiveness of the school system in meeting the educational <br />needs of LEP students, members of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro City School Board <br />of Education directed the Superintendent to develop a proposal which would <br />establish a Task Force on Educational Services for Limited English Proficient <br />Students. <br />Goals and Objectives of Task Force <br />The goals and objectives of the Task Force on the Educational Services for <br />Limited English Proficient Students include the following: <br />(1) To look at. methods of appropriately identifying LEP students, <br />assessing their language proficiency, and diagnosing their instructional <br />needs. u_ <br />(2) To identify resources to assist administrators in becoming more <br />knowledgeable of IegaVeducational issues and to implement <br />practices and procedures to assure more culturally and educationally <br />responsive programs for LEP students. <br />(3) To identify strategies to coordinate and provide equal access to all <br />school system programs and services for LEP students. <br />(4) To establish consistency in the criteria for entry/exit of LEP students into <br />the English as a Second Language (ESL) Program. <br />(5) To develop a demographic profile of the school system's Limited <br />English Proficient Population. <br />(6) To develop recommendations of instructional delivery models and <br />strategies for serving multi - language LEP populations. <br />(7) To collect feedback from the community and educators on: <br />a. the educational needs of Limited English Proficient students as <br />perceived by parents and teachers (ESL and mainstream <br />teachers) <br />b. the perception of LEP families of the Chapel Hill - Carrboro <br />City Schools; and <br />C. educational strategies that the community believes might be <br />successful with students from different countries and cultures. <br />R <br />