Relating to education; requiring the commissioner of education to designate a state coordinator for world languages education with classroom teaching experience within the department by a certain date, requiring input from the quality teaching network before designation or hiring; specifying certain duties of the coordinator; requiring and providing for commissioner grants to school districts and charter schools to develop model extended world languages programs to close the achievement gap between groups of students, defining extended world languages program and specifying certain geographic area and application requirements
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