NYS Education Dept

New York State Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies OBE-FLS provides information on policies, practices, and resources pertaining to the education of LEP/ELLs.

• State regulations
• CR Part 154 and Title III grant applications
• LEP/ELL identification process
• Language allocation policy
• Learning standards
• NYSESLAT & LAB-R
• Statewide BETAC network
• Bilingual Glossaries 

Office of State Assessment OSA provides information on all state testing mandates.

• Administration manuals - with Accommodations for LEP/ELLs
• Archived tests (including those in Chinese)
• NYSESLAT
• State assessments
• Testing schedules

Languages Other than English  LOTE provides information on foreign language requirements and assessments.

• LOTE learning standards
• Second language proficiency tests
• Testing schedules
• Q& A - with procedures for granting LOTE credit to LEP/ELLs