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October 23, 2019 | JNCL Newsroom
On October 18th, HR 4389 was referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. The bill is more commonly referred to as the SPELL Act—Su pporting Providers of English Language Learning Act. The bill would allot $17,500 in student loan forgiveness to teachers of English language learners, up from $5,000 currently. This increase would put English language teachers at the same level of loan forgiveness held by math, science, and special education teachers currently . As student debt dominates the debate around higher education, the SPELL Act will certainly incentivize college students to become English language teachers, a necessary goal given this role’s shortage across the country. 

October 17, 2019 | Housing Wire
According to Cortez Masto’s office, the senators believe the decision to move those sections to a separate form “could reduce access to mortgage financing for limited-English proficient mortgage-ready homebuyers and lead to serious financial repercussions.”

The changes, specifically the removal of the language preference question, were supported by the Mortgage Bankers Association and other groups.

“As you recall, MBA opposed the inclusion of the language preference question in the URLA because of the customer relations issues the question would cause if lenders could not actually serve borrowers in their preferred language, and due to unresolved operational and legal questions raised by the language preference information,” MBA President and CEO Bob Broeksmit said in a letter to MBA members earlier this year.

October 17, 2019 | NY Daily News
A Brooklyn city council member has introduced a new bill that would require the city Department of Education to report the number of families who ask for special education documents to be translated into their native language — and how many actually receive them, the Daily News has learned.

Under city rules, parents are entitled to translations of their kids’ Individual Education Plans, but special education observers say the city’s system for guaranteeing the translations is filled with holes.

Under city rules, schools have to pay for the translations out of their own pocket — if parents request it — from a budget that already covers language services for the entire school year.

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