English Language Learning
Program and Services
State Transitional Bilingual Education
Experience has shown that public school classes in which instruction is given only in English are often inadequate for the education of children whose native tongue is another language.
Title III (NCLB)
Federal funds for serving English language learners and immigrant students. Information about Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO's) can be found here.
Guidance
U.S. Department of Education: Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
- Self
Monitoring Checklist for Districts That Receive TBE/TPI/Title
III Funding
and ISBE
DELL Correspondence
Immigrant Education Program
This program provides funds to State educational agencies for support to local school districts that experience large increases in their student enrollment due to immigration. These grants are to be used to provide high-quality instruction to immigrant children and youth and to help those children and youth make the transition into American society and meet the same challenging State performance standards expected of all children and youth. For more information call 312-814-3196.
Migrant Education Program
This program provides supplemental education funding to schools for the purpose of improving educational opportunities for children of Migrant Agricultural workers to better attain grade-level proficiency and enable them to achieve high standards.
Teacher
Exchange Visitor Program
The exchange visitor program administered by the Illinois State Board of Education is a partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain and the Office of the Secretary of Public Education of Mexico.
School Aged Refugee and
Immigrant Services
The Refugee Children School Impact Grant Program (RCSIG) funds social service agencies serving refugee families to help integrate refugee children into Illinois schools. Social service agencies offer after school tutoring programs, counseling and assistance in communication between the school and family, parent education and cultural orientation for teachers.
ROE - ELL Professional
Development Initiative
Thirty-three Regional Offices of Education are participating in a small grant initiative program to provide professional development to their rural or other small local districts that are experiencing the enrollment of English Language Learner (ELL) students either for the first time or are now experiencing a major influx of ELL students. This grant program enables the Regional Offices of Education to provide workshops to local districts on state and federal laws requiring the provisions of bilingual education services including English as a Second Language instruction; how to identify, assess and serve ELLs; best practices, appropriate curricula and small program models to school administrators, general education teachers with ELLs in their classrooms, ESL teachers, bilingual teachers and teacher aides.
Bilingual
Transition to Teaching
The program recruits and trains and places professionals with Bachelor’s degrees into the teaching profession. Partnered with the Northern Illinois University, and twelve Chicago area school districts, the USDE funded project assists individuals to become certified bilingual/ESL teachers in high-need school districts.
