PRINTER'S NO. 2574
No. 1821 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ROCKS, CORMAN, SHUMAKER, HELFRICK, PETERSON
AND FISHER, OCTOBER 22, 1990
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, OCTOBER 22, 1990
AN ACT
1 Providing matching funds and loan forgiveness to encourage
2 foreign language instruction in elementary schools.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Matching funds.
6 The Commonwealth shall provide matching funds for all money
7 expended by a school district for foreign language instruction
8 in its elementary schools.
9 Section 2. Loan forgiveness.
10 The Commonwealth shall pay up to $2,000 toward repayment of
11 any school loan for each year that a qualified teacher spends
12 teaching a foreign language in an elementary school. This
13 payment shall be made both to a student who elects to study
14 foreign language instruction while in undergraduate school and
15 to a teacher who returns to college for courses in foreign
16 language instruction.
17 Section 3. Effective date.
1 This act shall take effect July 1, 1990, or immediately,
2 whichever is later.
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