<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title></title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; text-indent: 0.00in; text-align: justify; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; } span.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0 { color: #000000; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000001 { color: #000000; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53ac000002 { color: #000000; background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000003 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">    </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules?Rule=24:55:05:06"><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">24</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">:</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">55</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">:</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">05</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">:</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000000">06</span></a><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000001">.  English language proficiency rate progress goals and targets.</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> For each</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">public school and school district, the department shall calculate a unique English language</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">proficiency goal that result</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">s</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> in all students meeting English language proficiency rates by the</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">203</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">2</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-203</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">3</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year. </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">T</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">o achieve that long-term goal, the department shall set interim</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">goals at the five-year mark and ten-year mark. The interim goals </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">must</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> be set so that by the 202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">4</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">5</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year, each school attains the same English language proficiency rate as the fiftieth</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">percentile school from the 201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">7</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">8</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year. </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">T</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">he department shall set unique</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">English language proficiency goals for each school to attain the English language proficiency rate</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">of the seventy-fifth percentile school from the 201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">7</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">8</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year by the 202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">9</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-20</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">30</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">year. Following the 202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">4</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">5</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year, the department shall reset goals and targets to reach</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">the performance level of the seventy-fifth percentile school from the 201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">7</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-201</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">8</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year.</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">Following the 202</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">9</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">-20</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">30</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> school year, the department shall again set annual targets that result</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">in all schools meeting the English language proficiency rate.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53ac000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">    </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000001">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> 44 SDR 95, effective December 6, 2017</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">; 49 SDR 35, effective October 10, 2022</span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">    </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000001">General Authority:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=13-3-69"><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000003">13-3-69</span></a><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">(1)(5).</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">    </span><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000001">Law Implemented:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=13-3-62"><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000003">13-3-62</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0"> to </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=13-3-65"><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000003">13-3-65</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">, </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">inclusive, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=13-3-69"><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0-000003">13-3-69</span></a><span class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53acP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s6a8a45f4-95fa-4b32-9ade-6d034cbb53ac000002"> </span></p></div></body></html>