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Tools and Resources for Staffing and Supporting an English Learner Program, the third chapter of the English Learner Tool Kit, has been published online at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/english-learner-toolkit/chap3.pdf by the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), U.S. Department of Education (the Department).

The Tool Kit is intended to help state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs) in meeting their obligations to ELs. It should be read in conjunction with the joint Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on "English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents" (available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-el-201501.pdf) from the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), published in January 2015, which outlines SEAs’ and LEAs’ legal obligations to ELs under civil rights laws and other federal requirements. More Tool Kit chapters will be made available in the coming months on the OELA English Learner Tool Kit webpage at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/english-learner-toolkit/index.html, and will be announced in Nexus and on the NCELA website.

NCELA Nexus Newsletter May 01, 2015.