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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2015/09/feds_offer_step-by-step_guide_.html

Feds Offer Guide to Providing Quality Education for English-Language Learners
By Corey Mitchell
September 21, 2015

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice have completed a 10-chapter tool kit designed to help public schools ensure that English-language learners have access to a high-quality education.

The tool kit is a companion to joint guidance the departments released in January to remind schools of their federal obligations to the nation's nearly 5 million English-learners. Their rights have emerged as a significant policy focus for the Education Department as the percentage of ELLs in schools has increased.

…The tool kit is "intended primarily for state, district, school administrators, and teachers, but may also inform other stakeholders" interested in English-language learners and bilingual education, the departments say.

…The tool kit is free and accessible to the public and can be downloaded from the education department's website [at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/english-learner-toolkit/index.html]

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