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315.  In furtherance of its constitutional and legal requirement to
offer special language assistance to children coming from backgrounds
of limited English proficiency, the state shall encourage family
members and others to provide personal English language tutoring to
such children, and support these efforts by raising the general level
of English language knowledge in the community.  Commencing with the
fiscal year in which this initiative is enacted and for each of the
nine fiscal years following thereafter, a sum of fifty million
dollars ($50,000,000) per year is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund for the purpose of providing additional funding for free
or subsidized programs of adult English language instruction to
parents or other members of the community who pledge to provide
personal English language tutoring to California school children with
limited English proficiency.



316.  Programs funded pursuant to this section shall be provided
through schools or community organizations. Funding for these
programs shall be administered by the Office of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and shall be disbursed at the discretion of the
local school boards, under reasonable guidelines established by, and
subject to the review of, the State Board of Education.