Welcome to Bilingual Services

  • State Requirements for Translation
    Education Code Section 48985.

    48985.  (a) If 15 percent or more of the pupils enrolled in a public school that provides instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, speak a single primary language other than English, as determined from the census data submitted to the department pursuant to Section 52164 in the preceding year, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the school or school district shall, in addition to being written in English, be written in the primary language, and may be responded to either in English or the primary language.

    For more information, please visit the California Department of Education.

    In the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District

    Translation and interpretation services are provided by the Translations & Bilingual Community Services Department.

    Please submit all Translation/Interpretation Requests here.

     

     

    Language Groups that Meet the '15 Percent and Above' Translation Needs for Tahoe-Truckee Unified  (2016-2017) 

    School Code School Name School
    Enrollment    		 Number of
    English
    Learners (EL)    		 Percent of
    Total Enrollment
    that is EL and FEP
    0106807 Alder Creek Middle School 546 50 28.75%
    0121624 Sierra Expeditionary Learning 212 26 18.40%
    3130010 North Tahoe High 398 30 37.69%
    3130077 Sierra High (Continuation) 50 13 60.00%
    3130192 Cold Stream Alternative 11 1 18.18%
    3138500 Tahoe Truckee High 715 60 30.49%
    6031306 Kings Beach Elementary 374 152 45.72%
    6031314 Tahoe Lake Elementary 279 81 35.13%
    6031322 Truckee Elementary 521 207 47.41%
    6094502 North Tahoe Middle 446 71 43.27%

Contacts

  • Barbara Kane
    Coordinator of Translation and Bilingual Community Services
    (530) 582-2513 Ext 20446

    Angelica Stone
    English / Spanish Interpreter and Translator - Lake Schools 
    (530) 581-5070 Ext 22453

    Elvia Lopez Esparza
    Bilingual Translator/ Interpreter/ Community Liaison - ACMS (Alder Creek Middle School)
    (530) 582-2750 Ext 28453

    Adela González del Valle
    Community Liaison - Lake Schools
    (530) 583-3010 Ext 24348

    Maria Torres
    Community Liaison - Truckee Schools
    (530) 582-2650 Ext 26348