LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Office of Secondary Instruction

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF APPLICATION FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CREDIT

TO THE STUDENT. Before filling out this application, please read the following carefully

A student may receive credit for foreign language instruction received in a private school when he or she is enrolled in grade 9 or a higher grade, providing the following requirements have been met.

1. The minimum amount of foreign language instructional time for which 10 credits may be granted is 120 clock hours. A one-year foreign language course offered by the Los Angeles Unified School District provides approximately 155 clock hours of instruction.

2. A maximum of 40 credits is permitted for instruction in a private school.

3. Consistent with District policy, credit for foreign language instruction granted on the basis of the procedures herein described may be used for acceleration purposes only when the District principal has approved a program of acceleration that has been planned by the student, parent, and the counselor prior to enrollment in the private school.

If you decide to apply for credit, you must:

1. Fill out Part I of the application carefully. Note that your application must include the exact title and number of the course, or courses, for which you desire credit.

2. Obtain the signature of your counselor at the Los Angeles Unified School District school which you are attending, so that he or she may be informed of your intention to apply for credit.

3. Return your application to the principal of your private school.

4. Pass an examination which demonstrates that you are able to understand, speak, read, and write the foreign language at that level of proficiency which is expected of students who have completed a comparable course or courses in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

TO THE PRINCIPALS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS:

You are requested to observe the following procedures relative to applications and examinations:

1. Issue a copy of the “Application and Authorization Form for Foreign Language Credit” as requested by the student attending your school, who shall complete Part I and return the form to you. Additional copies of the application form may be obtained from the Specialist, Foreign Language, Los Angeles Unified School District. P O Box 3307, Los Angeles 90051.

2. Ask students to obtain the signature of the counselor at the Los Angeles Unified School District school which he or she is attending and return the application to you.

3. Certify in Part II of the application and authorization form the foreign language instruction that the student has completed, or is now receiving, and determine the course or courses for which he or she is eligible to receive credit through examination.

4. Administer an examination, prepared in cooperation with the Specialist, Foreign Language, Los Angeles Unified School District, to students in accordance with each student’s eligibility.

5. Certify in Part III of the application form whether or not the student satisfactorily passed the examination and is entitled to receive credit. Because credit must be recorded in terms of completion of equivalent courses in the Los Angeles Unified School District, course titles should correspond to those used in the District.

6. Mail the completed application and authorization form directly to the principal of the public school which the student is attending so that it will be received by the public school no later than the last day of the school year of the Los Angeles Unified School District. If the credit for which a 12^th grade student has applied is necessary for his or her graduation during the current school year, the completed application and authorization form must be received by the public school in which the student is enrolled no later than Wednesday of the 18^th week of the spring semester.

TO COUNSELORS IN JUNIOR AND SENIOR SCHOOLS:

Procedures for granting credit to students who have received foreign language instruction in private schools other than regular day or boarding schools are described in Office of Instructions, Bulletin No. 59, dated December 10, 1984.