Public school funding; ratios of instructional positions to English language learner students.

Public school staffing ratios; teachers; Englishlanguage learner students. Requires state funding to be providedpursuant to the general appropriation act to support divisionwideratios of English language learner students in average daily membershipto full-time equivalent teaching positions as follows: (i) for eachEnglish language learner identified as proficiency level one, oneposition per 25 students; (ii) for each English language learner identified as proficiency level two, one position per 30 students;(iii) for each English language learner identified as proficiencylevel three, one position per 40 students; and (iv) for all otherEnglish language learners, one position per 50 students. Current law requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriationact to support one such teaching position per 50 English languagelearner students, regardless of the identified English proficiencylevel of such students.