Loss of FLAP Funding Halts Foreign Language Assessments

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Loss of FLAP Funding Halts Foreign Language Assessments
By: Marion Herbert
January 27, 2012

While in the fourth year of a five-year Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) federal grant, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) learned in late December that Congress had cut the grant’s final year of funding. ACTFL had used its portion of the grant, which was created to improve innovative foreign language programs, to develop nationally recognized language assessments. Consequently, four years’ worth of work developing these tests assessments would go unfinished. While the language programs in districts will continue, many teachers may lose their jobs and the assessments, which were intended to gauge students’ progress and assist in higher education placement, will remain unfinished.

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