Director's files 1980-2005

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Director's files 1980-2005

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This series consists of correspondence, conference materials, printouts of presentation slides, speech materials, meeting agendas and minutes, clippings, and other materials collected by Carmen A. Perez-Hogan during her time as director of the Office of Bilingual Education of the New York State Education Department. Included are materials related to "Memoranda of Understanding" between the New York State Education Department and the governments of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, to define cooperative efforts ensuring the education of Dominican and Puerto Rican immigrants to the United States. Also included in the series are materials related to various bilingual education grant programs, including the Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center program and the Two-Way Bilingual Education Program. In addition, there are documents related to controversial issues at the state and national level regarding bilingual education, including efforts to make English the official language of the United States, as well as plans by the Office of Bilingual Education to revise their guidelines for the education of Creole-speaking immigrants from countries where English was the official language.

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New York (State). Education Dept.

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New York State's education system has antecedents in both English and Dutch colonial education. The Dutch, concerned with providing widespread general education, established tax-supported common schools under church and state control in most of New Netherland's communities. Under the English, who established a system of private or church-supported academies, emphasis was placed on advanced education of the elite and the common school system of the Dutch all but disappeared. In 1754 ...

New York (State). Education Dept. Office of Bilingual Education

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The Office of Bilingual Education (OBE) was established in 1969 as the unit within the New York State Education Department (NYSED) which provides support to districts in developing and implementing educational programs for limited English proficient (LEP) students. In early 2006, Foreign Language Studies (FLS) was added to the department title, and today the department is known as the Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies (OBEFLS). The office assists districts i...

Perez-Hogan, Carmen A.

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