Bilingual Education (folder 2), 1976-1977

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Application for Grants under Bilingual Education Program, November 15, 1977; letter to NYSUT research director Charles Santelli from State Education Department chief of Bureau of Bilingual Education, noting concerns re his lack of effective participation on Commissioner’s Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, July 29, 1977; minutes of Advisory Council meetings, 1976-77; NYSUT Committee on Educational Issues Survey on Bilingualism in the Public Schools: A Preliminary Report; Memorandum in Support of “An Act to Amend the Education Law in Relation to the Instruction of Pupils Who, By Reason of Foreign Birth, Ancestry, or Otherwise, Experience Difficulty in Reading and Understanding English,” signed by NYSUT, UFT, several teachers associations, and community organizations; edited drafts of act and commentary; Senate and Assembly versions; press release by Education Commission of the States, “Hispanic Students ‘Consistently’ Below Nation in Educational Achievement, Study Reveals”; correspondence between Commissioner of Education Ewald Nyquist and others re bilingual education; memo by State Education Department re basic competency tests (for students), May 28, 1976; re Commissioner’s Regulations re Pupil with Special Educational Needs (PSEN); text of State of Colorado Bilingual and Bicultural Education Act, 1975; booklet, Bilingual Education: Statement of Policy and Proposed Action by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, August 1972; list of target school districts in need of bilingual and/or English as a Second Language technical assistance