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FEP
Fluent (or fully) English proficient
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
FLAP
The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) is a federal program awarding grants to states and local educational agencies to promote programs that improve foreign language learning. The program for LEAs and SEAs was authorized under Title VII of the Improving Americas Schools Act of 1994, and only continuation grants will continue to be funded under Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. (U.S. Department of Education).
FLIP
The Elementary School Foreign Language Incentive Program (FLIP), authorized under Title V of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 awarding incentive payments to public elementary schools that provide students with a foreign language program designed to lead to communicative competency.
False Cognates
Words in different languages that sound alike and have similar form, but unrelated meanings (CA ELD Standards, 2000), like embarrassed (English) and embarazada (Spanish, meaning "pregnant").
Family Literacy Services
As defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001:[3]

The term family literacy services' means services provided to participants on a voluntary basis that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family, and that integrate all of the following activities:
(A) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children.
(B) Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and full partners in the education of their children.
(C) Parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency.
(D) An age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.
Free Public Education
As defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001:[3]

The term free public education' means education that is provided —
(A) at public expense, under public supervision and direction, and without tuition charge; and
(B) as elementary school or secondary school education as determined under applicable State law, except that the term does not include any education provided beyond grade 12.


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