Special Education & Language Access Resources

US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Final Regulations to Strengthen No Child Left Behind -- US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced final regulations to strengthen and clarify No Child Left Behind (NCLB), focusing on improved accountability and transparency, uniform and disaggregated graduation rates and improved parental notification for Supplemental Education Services and public school choice. The Secretary made the announcement on October 28 while speaking to educators, state and local policymakers and business leaders at South Carolina Educational Television in Columbia, SC.  Source: US Department of Education.

Portraits of Success -- A joint project of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), Boston College, and the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University (a program of The Education Alliance) from 1996 to 2000, this national effort resulted in a database on successful bilingual education programs. Source: NABE -- National Association for Bilingual Education.

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) -- NABE represents bilingual learners and education professionals. Since 1976, it promotes educational excellence and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity. Source: NABE -- National Association for Bilingual Education.

Spanish Language Resources on Special Education -- A page in English lists sources of information in Spanish on specific topics, so that English speakers can locate materials for their Spanish-speaking friends or clients. Source: NICHCY -- National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

Evaluating Supplemental Educational Service Providers: Issues and Challenges -- This publication urges state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to collaborate in gathering and examining evidence to ascertain whether supplemental education services are responding to the needs of stakeholders. Further, it proposes borrowing best practice from other program evaluations. Source: Northwest Regional Education Laboratory.

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc. -- AJE is a District of Columbia organization that uses parent empowerment as a vehicle for addressing the issue of inequality in basic educational opportunities among children with disabilities.