Section 44611 Of Article 9. Exchange And Recruitment From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 25. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 9.
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. The purposes of this article are to encourage and promote
the temporary exchange of teachers between school districts in
California and schools in foreign countries and to make available to
California schools as teachers foreign-born persons and others who
are especially qualified to provide instruction in one or more modern
foreign languages in order that the schools of this state may comply
with the requirement of the state law that foreign language
instruction be given to pupils in grades six, seven, and eight as of
July 1, 1965. It is the finding of the Legislature that California
teachers will become more fluent in a foreign language and more
knowledgeable about peoples of other countries and their environment
by teaching service in a country where that language is used in daily
life, and that it will be of substantial benefit to California
pupils beginning the study of a foreign language to be instructed by
teachers who are fluent in the language and conversant with the
attendant culture and are therefore able to instill and reinforce the
appropriate speech habits early in the learning experience of the
pupil. It is the purpose of the Legislature to encourage and enable
California schools to benefit from the language abilities of citizens
of foreign countries who are now or in the future may be residents
of this state.