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The California Department of Education has published a manual to provide guidance to local education agencies on identifying, classifying, and supporting English learners (ELs) with special needs.

School districts in all parts of the country have struggled with how to identify, support, and reclassify English learners (ELs) with disabilities. The result has been the over- and under-identification rates of ELs as having a disability.

The Language Usage Survey Guidance Handbook is revised from an earlier version published in 2016. This guide walks the reader through the entire process of identifying potential English learners (ELs).

This tip sheet, published in English and Spanish, lays out dos and don'ts of registering undocumented immigrant children (or children whose parents are undocumented) to avoid civil rights violations as outlined in the Plyler v. Doe decision.