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Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies

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2009

2008

2007

Diversity Network Meeting Power Point Powerpoint Presentation (263 KB)

S/CDN Meeting Power Point Powerpoint Presentation (93 KB)

David Abrams' on The New York State Assessment System and LEP/ELL's (Power Point Presentation) Powerpoint Presentation (126 KB)

2006

P-16 Education: A Plan for Action

Testimony of Commissioner Richard P. Mills Before the Assembly Standing Committee on Education Word Document (37 KB)

2004

January 2004 Regents Report on Building Capacity to Improve the Performance of LEP/ELLs

Report on Building Capacity to Improve the Performance of LEP/ELLs

1996

The Best: The Bilingual/ESL Success Times Publication is the first in a series of newsletters providing a collection of success stories in bilingual and ESL education in New York State.

Annotated Teacher Resource Bibliography for Working Effectively with Limited English Proficient Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE)/Issues, Materials, Practices, Nassau BOCES Bilingual Education Technical Assistance Center (BETAC), 1996
New York State, as well as other states in the nation, is experiencing an increase in the number of new immigrants who enter our schools with limited or interrupted formal education in their home countries. These are limited English proficient (LEP) students who come from a home where a language other than English is spoken and enter a School in the United States after grade two. Upon enrollment the LEP students have had at least two years below expected grade level in reading and in mathematics.

Last Updated: September 16, 2009