Guidance and Notices from US DOE

 

GUIDANCE

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• Improving Outcomes for All Students: Strategies and Considerations to Increase Student Diversity (U.S. Department of Education, January 2017)

 

• HUD/DOE/DOT Joint Letter on Diverse Schools and Communities (June 2016)

 

• The Department of Education and Department of Justice released joint guidance to ensure English Language Learners (ELLs) have equal access to high quality education. In addition to the guidance, DOE/DOJ released facts sheets regarding schools’ obligations to ELL students under federal law, fact sheets regarding schools’ federal obligations to convey information to parents in a language they understand, and a toolkit to help districts identify ELL students. (January 2015)

 

• The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights released new federal guidance on disparities in access to educational resources (October 2014)

 

• “Questions and Answers about Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin” (September 2013)

 

• Guidance on the Voluntary Use of Race to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools See NCSD’s response to the federal school integration guidance (December 2011)

 

• U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education. (2011). Guidance on the voluntary use of race to achieve diversity and avoid racial isolation in elementary and secondary schools.

 

FUNDING NOTICES

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•  Supplemental Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs (December 2010)

 

REPORTS

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•  Title VI Enforcement Highlights  (July 2012)

 

DEPARTMENT RESPONSES

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• Department Response to NCSD ESEA Waiver Letter (April 2015)
• Department Response to NCSD School Improvement Grant Evidence-Based, Whole-School Reform Model Submission (May 2015)