World language credit

(105 ILCS 5/10-22.43a) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.43a)     Sec. 10-22.43a. World language credit. To award or provide for the awarding of high school credit to high school students who have studied a world language in an approved community-based heritage language school program. The amount of credit awarded shall be roughly equivalent to the amount of credit the student would have received if he or she had reached the same level of world language proficiency at a public high school as he or she achieved at the community-based heritage language school. The school board may require a student seeking world language credit under this Section to successfully complete a world language proficiency examination. (Source: P.A. 104-803, eff. 8-7-26.)