(a) According to the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning, advanced level language proficiency is necessary for college and career readiness. To that end, students should have uninterrupted, consistent access to early standards-based learning experiences in languages other than English. School districts are strongly encouraged to offer languages other than English in middle school. For districts that offer languages in middle school, the essential knowledge and skills are those designated as levels I-IV in Subchapter C of this chapter (relating to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English).
(b) Students may be awarded one unit of high school credit per level for successful completion of the level or demonstration of equivalent proficiency and one-half to one unit of high school credit for successful completion of a non-sequential course.
(c) Districts may offer a level of a language in a variety of scheduling arrangements that may extend or reduce the traditional schedule when careful consideration is given to the instructional time available on a campus and the language ability, access to programs, and motivation of students.

Source Note: The provisions of this §114.14 adopted to be effective July 15, 2014, 39 TexReg 5385